Word: asserting
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Because Oman is sensitive about being seen as a U.S. client state, no U.S. personnel are stationed in the country. The 1980 agreement also stipulates that the bases may not be used without the Sultan's express consent. Nevertheless, Oman occasionally feels the need to assert its independence. Last September it announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...consumers so willing to become walking billboards? "Wearing these items is a way of broadcasting your preferences to the world," says Ellen Auster, a sociologist at Columbia University's business school. Many people want to assert something about their life-style, as in the case of young adults proclaiming their newfound privilege of drinking beer. Others want to reveal some hidden part of their personality. Says Auster: "The yuppie wears a Harley-Davidson shirt because it triggers a side of him that is most of the time suppressed...
...hope that Kirby might assert himself on behalf of FAS and in any way against the will of Summers is no more than a hope at this point,” adds another senior faculty member...
Both lightweight boats held onto those No. 1 rankings for the rest of the dual season, dispelling Princeton and Yale in come-from-behind victories to assert their position...
While experts assert that Harvard’s on-the-ground progress in these African countries continues to set new global standards for AIDS treatment delivery, administrative difficulties have dogged this grant throughout much of its 15-month history...