Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this explosive atmosphere, the new Prime Minister, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, chose to proceed as if he were walking through a minefield-which he was. To assert civilian control over restive soldiers, Calvo-Sotelo had to crack down on the known conspirators, but not so hard as to trigger another putsch. To remove the roots of discontent in the armed forces, he also needed to show rapid progress in curbing the Basque separatist terrorists, whose bloody attacks against the paramilitary Guardia Civil and police had inflamed the franquista officers. Here too, Calvo-Sotelo had a problem...
...investigators enough of what he had done to allow them to unravel the scheme. Meanwhile, separate investigations unearthed at least two other examples of banking abuse by Wells Fargo officials, raising questions about just how effective the bank's oversight practices are. So Cooley decided last week to assert that the nation's eleventh largest bank had not become an embezzler's playpen. He sent a letter to the bank's 15,000 employees, detailing what has been learned of the scam, and started talking to newsmen. Said he: "It appears that some of our policies...
...political concession..." words directed at those who harbor doubts about its validity as a discipline or the justification for its existence. Dean Rosovsky, after all, has described the birth of Afro-Am as "an academic Munich." Perhaps it is just an honest omission, but nowhere does Bok assert a commitment to the Afro-Am Department. Or perhaps he wants to avoid stating his commitment to a department that might be phased into an interdisciplinary committee, the future some undergraduates fear for Afro...
...snatch them back. In the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, it told Johnson he could take any action he chose in Southeast Asia; in the War Powers Act of 1973, it told Nixon that he could not use force anywhere without its approval. All congressional efforts to assert executive authority, however, run afoul of the fact that a bicameral legislature of 535 members has difficulty making up its collective mind, particularly in tricky questions of foreign policy. Individually, too, the legislators are often vulnerable to local pressures-an outcry from Greek constituents agitated about the Turks, or New England...
...government's conciliatory gesture was born of necessity: politically and economically, it cannot afford a full-scale confrontation with Poland's workers. At the same time, it must assert its authority, if only to mollify the Soviet Union. Accordingly, it issued a warning that unmistakably implied the use offeree. "Anarchy and chaos are creeping into the life of the country," the statement declared. "If the situation continues, the Council of Ministers will have to take the necessary steps aimed at ensuring the normal functioning of enterprises...