Word: asserting
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According to Iuliano's letter, the reports assert that the fuel contamination was the result of poor maintenance practices caused by a "system breakdown...
...mediocre. The mediocre many have an interest in denigrating wisdom, virtue and even merit--all severe, undemocratic notions--and in elevating sheer experience, which even the meanest can contribute to and appreciate. While wisdom, virtue and merit are hard to achieve and discern, experience is easy to assert and acquire. Yet because of the superficiality of plain experience, one needs it in great quantity and variety to appear impressive and interesting. So like everything else democratic, the democratic university is not focused and deep but expansively broad and various...
...could only 6% of the 68,183 telephoned votes have been counted as authentic? And why didn't the former Colorado Governor or his daughter receive ballots until Perot interceded? Perot aides say Lamm didn't get a ballot because his handwriting on a petition was illegible. They assert the balloting was honest and overseen by an independent auditor. Lamm doesn't accuse Perot of stealing the nomination. Still, he isn't inclined to endorse Perot: "Should he be the second Paul Revere? I say, Right on! But when it comes to [endorsing him for] President of the United States...
That is why Robert Putnam's 1995 essay "Bowling Alone" touched a national nerve. Putnam, a Harvard professor of government, used the catchy image of more Americans bowling by themselves and fewer in leagues to assert that traditional civic engagement in America has been on a long, slow decline for the past 25 years. Citing diminished participation in organizations like the PTA and the League of Women Voters, Putnam's essay seemed to reinforce a widespread feeling that civic life in America just wasn't what it used it to be. The nation's diminishing social capital was lamented...
Even so, there are plenty of minicrises coming. Privatization is lagging; agriculture is unreformed; the government is not collecting the taxes it is owed; and industrial production is still falling. Lebed and Chernomyrdin are sparring, and the Duma is looking for ways to assert its authority. A strong, engaged President may be able to sort it all out, and Yeltsin's supporters hope he has the heart...