Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the absence of the defending champions Olympic officials assert that Norway's team will be competitive and a good drawing card...
Given the confluence of events and personalities, the answer was a resounding nothing. Pusey, a religious man with a passion for civility and reason, seemed particularly ill-suited to handle or even comprehend the conflict. After the bust in April 1969 the Faculty, divided into factions, began to assert its power. As Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Samuel P. Huntington said at the time. "After the bust, there was basically no legitimate authority in the University." Authority had lost all claims to respect, and the ascendancy of President Derek C. Bok in 1971 did not offer much promise...
...dogma has falsely labelled various gender differences as facts. Men are taller than women, less emotionally dependent, more exploratory and able to orient themselves in open spaces, more visual and more reponsive to simple stimuli, and in general more successful. And the list goes on. But as the authors assert, these "facts" are simply the selective observations of scientists who wish to support their preconceived notions of a society divided along sex lines...
Occasionally, the authors can become heavy-handed in their rhetoric. In discussing the fallacy of biologically-based gender differences, for example, they assert that they "...will show that they [conventional sexist studies] represent a systematic selection, misrepresentation, or improper extrapolation of the evidence, larded with prejudice and based in poor theory...
...behind the Washington Post's, and its business and sports sections are both weak when compared with those at other major papers. But even with these limitations, the Times remains the nation's paper of record. Its readers may sometimes wish it did not so self-consciously assert that rank...