Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decline in honors candidates meant that there would be less cum awards, and decided that the "22 dropouts" had possible summas and magnas as well. So the Department went on to decide that less magnas and summas should be awarded--about 26 were granted--yet it continued to assert that distinctions are not given arbitrarily...
...part, that is the case now. Many decisions throughout the Administration are being delayed while the White House staff is being rebuilt. Symptomatically, Wall Street had its worst slump in months, and the dollar took a bad beating on international money markets. Congress was continuing to assert its new-found truculence. In the Senate last week, the once hawkish Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to forbid any U.S. spending for any combat activity in either Cambodia or Laos...
These men fear that their proudly independent agency has become, at least in the public eye, a mere tool of the White House. They privately assert that-especially after the disclosure that the FBI tapped the phones of some Government officials and newsmen for the White House-many Americans will view the FBI as a potential threat to themselves...
...perhaps you should join them and become president of a business corporation yourself. Go with those who are dedicated to maximizing profit, and let someone else with greater ideals and a stronger moral backbone do a job dedicated to "Veritas." To serve this University you must be willing to assert moral leadership...
...heart of the matter is the secret Nixon campaign contribution of $200,000 in cash that was paid to Stans by Financier Robert L. Vesco. The indictments assert that Mitchell and Stans reciprocated by aiding Vesco in his unsuccessful efforts to quash a Securities and Exchange Commission probe into his "looting" of a huge mutual-fund complex. The go-between was Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey, onetime Republican majority leader in the state's senate and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominated...