Word: asserting
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...catch our eyes, take stands and learn our names. I have a friend who collects the signatures of Harvard Presidents. His archive includes James B. Conant ’14 (also a Crimson editor) and it includes Increase Mather. That’s impressive. But those characters could assert themselves as educational pioneers, and they lived nearly four centuries apart...
...Last year the Indian Point 2 plant, part of a trio of upstate New York reactors Entergy recently bought for around $1 billion, was temporarily closed down after radioactive water leaked from a ruptured steam tube. Just as the plants are getting older and more prone to problems, critics assert, the nrc is letting operators police themselves...
...demonstrators assert that all Harvard workers’ wages should be high enough to enable full-time workers to afford to live within reasonable commuting distance from the workplace at a decent standard of living, so that they need not work a second or even third job just to pay for food, shelter and clothing; and that all Harvard workers should get health insurance and other regular benefits. They also assert that Harvard’s failure to meet these standards for wages and benefits is unjustifiable...
...negotiations with China, even business negotiations - playing the dash-to-the-airport ruse. Sometimes they literally sign agreements at the airport. There's a lot of political brinkmanship and grandstanding here, most of it meant for domestic consumption. The plane has become a symbol for both sides to assert national dignity...
...become fashionable to hear the SATs are not useful," McGrath-Lewis said. "[The businesses] assert that the SATs are not a good measure of things they value. We use them for admissions to college...