Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to affirm family solidarity with his mother and stepfather, Roger Clinton. In 1975, when Bill Clinton got married, his new wife chose to keep the name Hillary Rodham. But five years later, Clinton was defeated in a run for re-election as Arkansas Governor, at which point, to assert a more conventional family image, Hillary Rodham started calling herself Hillary Clinton. But she was not exactly taking Bill's name either, since "Clinton" had not originally been Bill's. Bill was once removed from his own birth name, so now Hillary was, in a sense, twice removed...
...read Mr. Asante's stuff, all this stuff about the Greeks learning philosophy from Africa. I think that that philosophy is worthless. There's been a movement in the twentieth century to assert that a lot of Greek notions are vague and have no empirical basis, so even if the Greeks did study in Africa, so what? These are not the most pressing things that face...
...offers as its rationale the fact that AIDS and other such diseases are not transmitted by casual contact the way tuberculosis is. In order to assert this, however, the department must implicitly define casual contact in a narrow and unrealistic way that is more appropriate to describe the situation of visitors than of proposed long-term residents...
...dress rehearsal for full-scale riot control in December when 300 officers quelled a random looting and rock- throwing melee at the corner of Florence and Normandie, where last spring's violence broke out. Moving swiftly, the cops cordoned off the area and made 60 arrests. To assert control without using clubs, some officers carried newly acquired 37-mm gas guns that shoot foam-rubber bullets...
...Bruce Bolling late last year accused a cab driver of racism when she refused to take him to his Roxbury home. At first the story seems simple; a Black official was a victim of discrimination. But cabbies complain that they are often victims themselves of violence and robbery. They assert that they are not being racist but rather protecting what little they have. Suddenly it is a little harder to figure out who is the underdog...