Word: assertional
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...appropriate places and can assume an advocate role. It went through an extensive Faculty-ordered self-examination last year and concluded that its main problem was that nobody knew that it existed. Since that conclusion came out in a report last Spring, the commission has done very little to assert itself as a major force in the University. Its publicity campaign has been limited to a one paragraph mention in the handbook of undergraduate regulations, and it has not even met this year, though it has received complaints, because its two student members have not been selected...
...marked contrast to the 1967 war, both Moscow and Washington initially went out of their way to avoid confrontation. The Russians did not assert that Israel had fired the first shot in the renewed fighting. Although they excoriated Israel as the aggressor in a general sense and, of course, denounced Israeli bombing of the Soviet Culture Center in Damascus, the polemics were relatively restrained. For its part, the U.S. appeared determined to be calm and polite. Said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "We do not consider that Soviet actions as of now threaten detente." In fact, he said, Soviet behavior...
...discussing the return to Japanese control of four islands north of Hokkaido that were seized by the Soviets at the tail end of the war. Though small geographically (4,244 sq. mi.), the islands-Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotani and Habomai*-loom large politically. The Diet has been pressing Tanaka to assert Japan's rights to the islands. If Tanaka could arrange their return under a belated peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War II, it would be a major and much-needed personal triumph...
Leontief's own perspective of the discipline in general is consistent with his decision to support Harvard's unsuccessful radical economists. He will not assert that one system or one doctrine is necessarily better than another, but that a variety of economic structures and values are acceptable depending on specific circumstances...
...their Sardinian suits, the companies assert that, acting over their protests, the crude was twice loaded from Amoseas storage tanks in Ras Lanuf terminal aboard a ship that was to deliver it to the Saras refinery near Cagliari, Sardinia. The oil firms are suing Saras for return of the crude or payment of an estimated $2,000,000 cash for the cargo, on the ground that the oil still legally belongs to Amoseas...