Word: asserting
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Wrinn said that if Harvard does not assert the right to its name, there is the potential that it could have to ask HPHC for permission to use the Harvard name if it wanted to enter a field in competition to the plan...
...revolution. Supposedly instituted to redistribute wealth to the needy, the bonyads operate as little more than corporate monopolies. Above the law, they are neither subjected to audits, nor believed to pay taxes. By making the bonyads more answerable to government, Khatami can both help to reinvigorate the economy and assert the importance of democratic accountability...
...John is definitely trying to, in light of the controversy, assert the fact that he is the vice president," Griffin told The Crimson...
Though Microsoft's lawyers haven't had a chance to make that statement yet, company spokesmen did ballyhoo the AOL-Time Warner deal as proof that the high-tech industries in which Microsoft competes--unfairly, according to the Justice Department--are evolving so quickly and convulsively that to assert Microsoft exerts monopolistic power is "almost comical...
...song itself tries to assert her "woman in me" mantra and it's not too bad. But a girl wearing a leopard print coat and hood in the desert? What was she thinking? The video's plot's pretty simple: Shania looks hot (I mean literally--she's gotta be overheated in that animal skin), she rejects like five different hitchhikers for no apparent reason (including a white boy who looks uncomfortable in his sheik outfit), and she ends the video without a ride, lonely and overdressed in the desert. The lyrics of the song wax poetic about needing...