Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Hand. Goldberg had told the Executives' Club of Chicago that "Government has the obligation to define the national interest and assert it when it reaches important proportions in an area of our economy. This is what your Government is going to do. I think the Government has got to give more help to the collective bargaining process." Goldberg quickly explained that the Administration was against wage and price controls and against compulsory arbitration "as a general principle," but elements within both management and labor saw the long hand of Government interference in his words. Said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President...
...once she has been liberated from Algeria. The O.A.S., on the other hand, believes that the Algerian war is part of the same struggle in which France presumably hopes to participate more vigorously by freeing herself from the Algerian imbroglio. This belief is compounded partly of a desire to assert, once and for all, that the Army's service in the colonies has not been outside the main-stream of contemporary French history. Just as de Gaulle is anxious to keep his record clean for posterity by finishing what he pledged to finish, so the O.A.S. leadership is concerned lest...
Furthermore, many primate societies are strictly communist; territory is owned in common, and individual members of these groups have not found it necessary to assert their dominance to a marked degree. Indeed, compared to bird societies, where territory is held on an individual basis, primates have a much more subtle and flexible dominance pattern...
...nuclear stalmate, the President might be absolutely justified in concluding that the resulting threat to peace outweighs the highly problematical (although not, for that reason, less tragic) risk of harm. As I say, I hope this is not the correct conclusion. But it seems to me frivolous to assert, without evidence, that this cannot ever be the situation...
...case against four-power control of the Berlin airlanes; after a sufficient number of Western rejections of Moscow's "reasonable" requests, the Russians might try to walk out of the Air Safety Center, and hand their role over to Communist satellite East Germany, which desperately wants to assert its own sovereignty. But by week's end, the whole air corridor flap seemed more a test of nerve than anything else. When the U.S., Britain and France fired off blunt, angry notes warning Moscow that it was "running the gravest risk," the Russian nuisance flights abruptly ended...