Word: assertion
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...Harvard students to identify real bulletins and damages the credibility of the HUPD. The poster in question is realistic enough that it could provide reasonable confusion as to the identity of a potentially dangerous criminal and therefore impair the HUPD investigation. We urge removal of all fake posters and assert that they have no right to be hanging in public...
...place full responsibility on the broad shoulders of Harvard's front-court would be unfair. Harvard's guards need to assert more pressure on their counterparts, as well...
What is essential to note, however, is that not only is the success and achievement contagious but so too is the driven and assertive character commonly encountered. One cannot passively approach the Harvard experience, for one will be trampled on by the masses of students who know exactly where they would like to go and are determined to do so in the fastest way possible. Individuals, therefore, are pushed to assert themselves strongly so as to thrive in the struggle for academic excellence, a goal towards which we are all so decisively directed...
...this instillation of fear that has escaped the Crimson in the last 18 months. Teams had entered Bright Arena with confidence--and with good reason. Harvard consistently failed to assert any dominance in its own rink in 1994-95 when it went...
...recent guest editorial ("A Way Out Of Affirmative Action," Opinion, Oct. 28, 1995) where he presents "a disarmingly simple" way to dissuade the objections to affirmative action." Choi seems to think that by making affirmative action a voluntary consideration for women/minority groups these candidates will be able to assert their true ability and render affirmative action unnecessary. Choi displays a shockingly one-dimensional, naive, even somewhat warped perspective on the issue of affirmative action...