Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's decision that every identifiable member of the class must be personally notified has created an impossible burden for injured plaintiffs attempting to assert their rights by means of class action...
Here we are at the core of Ullmann's misconception of the role. Her Nora does not grow toward self-awareness or strive for emancipation (as Claire Bloom's so affectingly did a few seasons ago). Instead, she simply seems to assert herself by different methods. Thus there is no sense of either exhilaration or poignance in her departure...
...begin to assert his American citizenship, and soon enough the law, in all its sudden, arbitrary, inescapable power, will be down on him, and hard indeed...
NEWS REPORTS FROM Cambodia last week indicate that the Lon Nol regime, after five years of military attempts to assert its rule, is on the verge of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of refugees face the prospect of starvation in the coming weeks; troops still loyal to Lon Nol are disorganized and demoralized. The regime now rests on a single pillar; the daily American airlift of rice and ammunition into Phnom Penh. American experts and policy-makers are unanimous in their opinion that Phnom Penh would fall almost immediately to the Khmer Rouge without the airlift...
...shortcomings and failures. The U.S. should therefore act as "the new [world] society's loyal opposition" and go on the offensive in three areas: 1) "forcefully" broadcast the achievements of Western liberalism such as the multinational corporation-"arguably the most creative international institution of the 20th century"; 2) assert that "inequalities in the world may be not so much a matter of condition as of performance," citing Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore and other Third World success stories; 3) compare the political and civil liberties that the Third World countries "provide their own peoples [and] those which are common and taken...