Word: assertively
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...answer is settlement: the time when, about 6,000 years ago, mankind turned from a nomadic to an agricultural way of life. That was the moment, Cope says, when man began to assert some kind of existential control: "When we started putting stones around the campfire, when the hearth became the center of life, when suddenly the heavens started moving around us instead of them changing as we moved across the landscape...
...foreign commentators and reliable sources…assert that foreigners, especially students, overwhelmingly support Kerry,” Rotberg said...
Eric Shinseki did assert that more troops were needed, but he retired on schedule in June 2003. Shinseki had clashed with Donald Rumsfeld, though, and a leak from Rumsfeld's allies turned the general into a lame duck 15 months before he hung up his uniform--long before he called for more troops...
...senior U.S. law-enforcement officials tell TIME they are continuing to follow the case closely and are learning even more disturbing details about what the group may have been plotting. Reports on the British investigation, now circulating among U.S. law-enforcement agencies, assert that the group was trying to construct a crude radiological dirty bomb. The arrests (which followed a yearlong surveillance operation, code-named Operation Spangle) turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME...
...policy reform and changes in funding for education and health care. With such highly contested issues appearing on state ballots, it’s likely that—if encouraged and reminded by projects such as “I Decide”—more students will assert their civic duty this election...