Word: assertively
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...soul on the street, and we thought how eerie and disturbing that was. When we went to Checkpoint Charlie, and Ronnie was shown the line that people couldn't cross, he took his foot and put it over the line. He felt it was important to assert what was right. He got very stubborn and even mad when his advisers would take out a line he really believed from a speech. It was on that trip that he stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall...
...Hernandez—who herself will graduate with a certificate from the Rockefeller Center—continues to assert the academic importance of studying Latino culture and history as a distinct field...
Nearly 200 students sign a petition urging the creation of an alternative class for Social Analysis 10—commonly known as “Ec 10”—the introductory economics course led by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein. Students assert that Ec 10, which is required of all economics concentrators, has a conservative bias. Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin offers to teach the alternative class...
...leadership doesn’t seem to value dissenting opinions in meetings so they don’t structure them to listen appropriately to them. So people in the minority—we had to assert more procedural rules guaranteeing us the right to express our views and have our amendments heard,” Barro says. “You heard less dissent during Rohit’s administration because there was less dissent...
...point made by Krauthammer is patently absurd. Of course the impact of presidential policies and initiatives is far more subtle and complex than is often depicted in campaign rhetoric. But to assert that the economy is beyond a President's control is to ignore the wide-reaching effects of such fiscal policies as tax cuts and the setting of interest rates-which, even when they aren't enacted directly by the President, are introduced by his supporters. Krauthammer's view also ignores the blatant effect of government programs and spending on the economy. Budgets are a zero-sum game...