Word: assertion
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...authors assert that a number of factors, including universities’ response to the Vietnam War and the campus turmoil of the 1960s. The rise of the concept of “student as consumer” in the 1980s, when students and parents began to see education as a product and grades as indicative of its quality, also contributed to grade inflation...
Theologian John Milbank, whom you profiled as one of your innovative thinkers [INNOVATORS, Dec. 17], claims that there is no universal truth, as some philosophers assert, yet he uses this to "prove" that Christianity is the true creed. Milbank, like many philosophers, thinks he has found a way out, an answer to everything, but he is obviously still in the fight to prove his religion right. The truth is, he has not proved anything, and nobody ever will. We simply need to enjoy the wonders of life, feeling good and loving and helping others. Thought isn't for getting somewhere...
...committee heard accounts of lower-paid service workers at Harvard being unaware of their rights on campus, being uncertain of how to assert them, or being fearful that asserting them would result in retaliation from management,” the report stated...
...committee heard accounts of lower-paid service workers at Harvard being unaware of their rights on campus, being uncertain how to assert them, or being fearful that asserting them would result in retaliation from management,” the report stated...
...creators and preservers of these everyday objects. Their place at the foundation of the home-based economy indicates that even though “women’s liberation” as we understand it is an innovation of the twentieth century, colonial women, too, found ways to assert themselves...