Word: assertive
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...course, an essentially unstoppable and hydra-headed power, which is probably why it makes the fundamentalists so crazy. It is, believe me, often as stupid and vulgar to me as it is to them. But it is also full of vitality and it is eventually bound to assert, for at least some of their children, the seductiveness of the forbidden. Lindsay Lohan is not going to save them. But some of them, someday are going to get hold of Huckleberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye - one of those books mom and pop are trying to get banned from...
Reactions like that of Cross are widespread. Even though athletic department higher-ups assert that the plan to renovate the MAC has been under way for a long time, it seems that at no point was any effort made to reassure those varsity athletes whose teams make their homes on the upper floors of the building...
...West, they may be being eclipsed by events. "As we saw during the Lebanon crisis with its support of Hezbollah - Shi'ites [that] the al-Qaeda has traditionally loathed as heathen - the traditional al-Qaeda leadership looks as though it's chasing after conflicts, and struggling to assert its role as an influence and reference in the war to advance Islam in the world," Jacquard says. "Before that it looked both late and calculating in supporting Hamas. At least by appearance, traditional al-Qaeda leaders at times look frantic trying to get back to center stage...
...think, not an exaggeration to assert that holding all of those assets in the form of U.S. treasury bills...[is] financial malpractice,” he said...
...think, not an exaggeration to assert that holding all of those assets in the form of U.S. treasury bills...[is] financial malpractice,” he said...