Word: assertively
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...female self-sabotage the reason women hold only 2.6% of FORTUNE 500 CEO positions? You'd think so, to read this sincere but Pollyannaish book. Shambaugh argues that self-defeating behaviors like allowing work to crowd out family and friends and failing to assert oneself are holding women back. "Remember," declares the author, a Washington human-resources consultant, "once women free themselves from the sticky floors, there is no glass ceiling. Instead, the sky is the limit!" If only it were that easy...
Despite his role in hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union and bringing democracy to Russia, Gorbachev has emerged as a sometimes-ambivalent supporter of Putin’s largely successful effort in recent years to tighten his grip over Russian politics and assert his power on the global stage. The pro-Putin United Russia party is expected to win by a wide margin on Sunday, in large part because opposition parties have been prevented from participating in the election...
...these accomplishments, Malaysia is suffering from midlife anxiety. Increasingly, the nation's diverse ethnicities live in parallel universes, all Malaysians, yes, but seldom coming together as they once did for meals or classroom discussions. Religion, too, has divided the nation, as some Malaysians assert that a conservative strain of Islam is causing a segment of the faith's worshippers to withdraw from a multicultural society. Malaysia's economy is being challenged by regional competitors, with many questioning the future of the affirmative-action scheme that has served as the country's financial bedrock. At the same time, a nation that...
...past have found it difficult to control illegal logging and land-clearing because much of it takes place in remote areas of the vast Indonesian archipelago, beyond the reach of the law. "Even if you have money coming in, how [is the government] going to be able to assert control in these frontier places?" asks Rod Taylor, WWF International's forests program director. Indonesia's Minister of Forestry, M.S. Kaban, says this problem has been solved. "The burning is stopped. Our people are very committed," Kaban says. He notes that there were more than 7,000 criminal cases brought against...
...remember the anniversary of this madness, then, it will not be enough simply to register our disgust. In the face of the gross depravity of this country’s imperial presence in Iraq, we have to be prepared to assert actively our wholesale opposition. Sentiments must become convictions; inklings must become arguments. To the pessimists among us, Joan Baez said it best: “Action is the antidote to despair.” Let us make sure that this anniversary also marks the beginning...