Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to supporting Reagan's package of tax cuts, reductions in Government spending and regulatory reform, the Roundtable has its own ambitious agenda. A top priority is encouraging programs that boost U.S. exports. The business leaders, for example, assert that the procedures for obtaining a Government export license should be simplified and that federal taxes on Americans working abroad should be lowered...
...picturesque farm country and near the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail, a favorite haunt of backpackers, there have been few of the protests that normally accompany energy exploration. Most of the leases involve private landowners and farmers, and do not include government lands over which environmental groups can assert a public interest...
...time the dust had settled after the singles competition, the Crimson already stood at 6-0 and had clinched their first Eastern league victory of the season. They continued to assert their dominance, ultimately crushing Navy...
...drugs without delving into the pressures which cause their use. The band plays in Kansas, and, what do you know, a kid who visits backstage turns out to be Tony's (from that first backstage tryst). Tony suffers a series of painful flashbacks that seem to assert: "Oh, why did I go across the country and take all those drugs when I could have stayed, married, and washed dishes all my life? This attitude is so antithetical to the adventuresome spirit of pop music one wonders why Bakshi even bothered...
Though cases like Rossall's are rare, Randolph and his adherents assert that thousands suffer from less severe ecological "allergies." In many people, they say, these reactions are not immediately recognizable, masquerading instead as arthritis, alcoholism, headaches and depression. According to London's Sunday Times, Rossall in the past has been diagnosed as suffering from a pancreatic tumor, angina, coronary thrombosis, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis...