Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Victoria's impulsive reach for a gunboat was as quick as Lord Palmerston's whenever the empire's prerogatives were challenged. Although Albert tried to assert the principle that the crown should be above politics, she remained, as one expects queens to be, a natural Tory. Thus she ignored the Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled...
...good smart boy, the youngster Updike depicts the town where his teacher father works, while painfully acceding to his mother's wish that he aim to fly beyond it. The tension comes from the boy's guilt-ridden love for his town, and his need to assert his identity and grow both in the town and in his home--neither, below the surface, very healthy grounds to spring from...
...break new legal ground. In the past, "offshore" mutual funds-the IOS-managed type that raise money abroad but invest it in the U.S.-have operated in a regulatory vacuum. No government believed that it had full jurisdiction over them. The SEC contends that a U.S. court can assert authority over foreign-headquartered funds for a variety of reasons, among them a principle in international law that a country can halt activity occurring outside its borders if it "causes an effect" within those borders. If the SEC can make that claim stick, the offshore funds' freedom from supervision...
...while he seems to further it. Montgomery creates a sexual triangle among the coarse Rogochin, the passionate, misused and vengeful Natasha, and the sexless Myshkin, undercutting any examination of either problems, and throwing the focus on the Prince's inability to get it up rather than his inability to assert his gentle values in a morally chaotic atmosphere. He also doubts the ability of anyone conscious of existential loneliness to hold a consistent moral vision, since this ridiculous assumption comes out only in isolated rhetorical interludes, it is best forgotten...
...failed to stop President Nixon, who, with the help of Democrat Wilbur Mills, tried to bestow on himself an item-by-item veto over spending programs authorized by Congress. Eight months ago, some talk of replacing Albert started circulating through the Capitol. His gentle ways and his unwillingness to assert his authority decisively left many Democrats wondering where they could find someone capable of more vigorous leadership. Challengers were not hard to find. Mills himself, head of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, was the conservatives' favorite, but he has given up any thought of challenging Albert. A few liberal...