Word: asserts
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Revolutions in consciousness are probably best made indirectly. The programs of the Harvard-Danforth Center are in the enviable and powerful position of taking for granted these assumptions--about control and responsibility and effectiveness. You have to understand the persuasive power of not needing to assert that something matters. It's part of the subtle power of Professor Christensen's case method. He likes to quote the Quaker saying, "God is in the details." If in the details, then in the whole enterprise. The stakes are high in every case he uses, and the teachers in his class are waving...
...reverse discrimination Louis makes is that those who insist that remedies for past discrimination not injure the rights of whites confuse the "setting up [of] goals and timetables with quotas, presumably preferring that Blacks simply lodge individual lawsuits each time they find themselves victims of racial discrimination." In this assertion, Louis is using the "straw man" technique in double measure. First, no serious participant in the debate objects to increased efforts to recruit more minority applicants. Goals and timetables are acceptable, and even laudable, as long as no applicant's credentials are given special weight because...
...Hollywood film and television producers, home taping means getting something for nothing: the consumers are getting something while they, the producers, are getting nothing. The producers dispute the high court's contention that people are only "time-shifting." Consumers, they assert, are building up video libraries of copyrighted material and hence reducing the resale potential of the material to other markets, such as broadcast reruns, cable and prerecorded cassettes. Hollywood still wants what it has wanted all along: some kind of royalty payment from the manufacturers of tapes and machines, perhaps drawn from a surcharge on the sale...
...most dramatic change in student life, students and officials assert, is the emergence of volunteer in as the College's primary extracurricular activity...
...that the West will not speak a crusading language and that the Soviets will cease to found their policy on the certainty of the collapse of the other system. It further presupposes their willingness to take into account the right of others to security instead of being content to assert their own, and that they modify their methods in places where the evolution of society and men's aspirations so require, as in Poland. With our historical links to Eastern Europe and sensitivity to the unjust division of our continent, we Europeans hope that the Soviet Union will gradually...