Word: assertively
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Dartboard feels that if the University wants to help its students while still maintaining academic integrity, it should change the debate slightly. We should get statistics showing that grade inflation is a problem at all universities (or at least throughout the Ivy League) and then assert that Harvard is leading the fight against grade inflation. If we position ourselves as the doctor rather than the diseased patient, we’ll be telling future employers, grad schools and the public that Harvard is still the best because we are willing to confront the problems that afflict all of higher education...
...start taking responsibility for the climate of hate and fear that they have helped create in this country. Many pro-life organizations are very much aware of those who are involved in anti-abortion violence and have continually updated thinly veiled hit-lists of doctors who perform abortions. Many assert that they are not associated with such extremists but do not do much to help find or stop these attacks. Their silence is much worse than any association they could possibly have...
Single fathers mostly scoff at those who assert the inherent superiority of mothers. And some scholars say gender is less important than factors like a supportive network of family and friends. "Twenty years of research has shown that fathers can learn to do most anything that mother does," says Jeffery Evans of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. That's not to say there are no differences. Studies show fathers tend to roughhouse more with kids, pushing them to take risks, while mothers tend be better organizers. So far, though, these differences have been measured in married...
...don’t assert yourself, if you don’t respect yourself, no one else can respect you,” Blewett says. “I’m not saying that [Giampaolo] didn’t, but what he needed to do is different than what I needed to do. I look back right now and I’m still inspired by his performances. But I just feel like my needs differ from...
...you’re out there. For me, obviously others got me thinking in the right direction, but it came down to me wanting to consciously change my thought process. I had to change my self-perception, accept myself for who I was and know that I need to assert myself in different settings. You have to do that in order to overcome any sort of failure—in life, not just kicking...