Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of mishaps that have troubled the start of his campaign. He entered the race earlier than he had planned, with his organization in disarray, but under the glare of constant publicity. From the start he had trouble dealing with abstract questions such as his idea of how to assert leadership. He explains: "There is a problem moving from the day-to-day life of a Senator, where you are involved in the details of legislation, to a campaign, where the expression of issues is quite different." On one occasion, he had to retape a TV segment, and when...
...given behavior can either be closed to or susceptible to environmental modification. This depends on the species and behavior under discussion. The complexity of the theoretical and empirical issues involved leads understandably to a wide spectrum of opinion within the field on certain questions, especially human behavior. Therefore, to assert that sociobiologists believe behavior is "genetic" and hence ineradicable or unmodifiable is an unscientific and unethical misrepresentation which plays into the hands of those who SFTP claims to fear most...
...theory that with the decline of Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference for the European 12th century and its security of belief as expressed in the glory of Gothic architecture. He does not assert that descriptions of the dark side of the Yankee mind, the haunted battlefields of the Civil War and the avarice of the Gilded Age as the disturbing context of Henry's and Clover's lives suggest a climate of deepening despair. It is the climate of this richly...
...most cases, the new Caribbean nations depend on their former colonial masters to buy their largely agricultural products. Trapped between their dependence on the one hand and their need to assert their independence on the other, many have adopted an anti-Western stance. Even though Cuba survives only by massive infusions of Soviet aid (an estimated $2.5 billion a year), Castro's nose-thumbing attitude toward the U.S. and his admitted achievements-notably the elimination of illiteracy-provide an alluring model for Cuba's neighbors. Says Abraham Lowenthal, a U.S. authority on Latin America: "These countries are satellites...
Although Powers believes that the students did not trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...