Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts, like Sociologist Dr. Kersti Yllo of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., speculate that "loving" violence may partly be a byproduct of women's push for equality. Uncertainty about once traditional roles, she reasons, makes men more anxious to assert themselves and women more anxious to fight back...
AGRIBUSINESS. From the cucumber patches of Maryland through the orange groves of Florida to the tomato fields of California, thousands of farm workers live in squalid shacks with communal latrines and no running water. Fruit and vegetable growers assert that they pay the minimum wage, but the money is often funneled through labor contractors who actually hire the workers. In many cases, these so-called crew chiefs, who are usually immigrants themselves, deduct exorbitant amounts from worker salaries for food, rent and transportation...
Counter will also have to "assert considerable imagination and ingenuity on activities that could be proposed in order to give it (the Foundation) concreteness." Bok said...
Other scholars challenge the notion that corporate behemoths bring greater efficiency and lower prices. They assert that big firms, like governments, are more likely to become bureaucratic and complacent. Says Willard Mueller, an economist at the University of Wisconsin: "Large companies are not innovative. Hugeness destroys initiative." Indeed, during the past decade, two-thirds of all new jobs in the U.S. were created by businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Some of the most creative and innovative firms in America today, companies such as Apple Computer, Genentech and New York Air, are small, new corporations...
...Administration's deep spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, and thus increase the need for federal borrowing. Interest-rate pessimists like investment bank Economists Henry Kaufman of Salomon Bros, and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston Corp., who have been nicknamed Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom along Wall Street, assert that the prime rate could ratchet up at least above its peak of 21.5% and possibly as high as 25% before the end of the year...