Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several of Thompson's colleagues were willingto assert--not for attribution--that his negativeassessment had nothing to do with Berkowitz'scritical book review...
...that Japan had been culturally static until then. Japan's ancient imperial capital Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants and entrepreneurs...
Bouchard is currently facing eviction, but said he is optimistic because he knows his rights. "If you know you have rights and assert them then you can deal with it," he says...
These same men will assert that women enjoy and even solicit the attention. Fortunately, most women are not so badly in need of affection. Being ogled by complete strangers--often dirty old men--simply because I happen to have been born a woman is not flattering. Having to change directions because a leering man is sauntering toward me is not flattering. Having to leave a party early because a male under the influence of alcohol is persuaded that he is Romeo and all the women are Juliet is not flattering...
...necessarily have to take the defensive in this situation. Back up off 'da ropes and assert yourself as a confident woman of the 90s by trying these other approaches. Use the classics, "Did someone step on a duck?," or "What the hell was that?," or even preface your burst of flatulence with, "Would you like to know how I would end war and world hunger...