Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government is preparing to take a different stance toward science -- and not just because a new Administration is coming to Washington. Long before the election, policymakers were concluding that they should assert more control over research by telling many scientists precisely what to work on. "We've got to do some readjusting," says Guyford Stever, co-chairman of a recent Carnegie Commission study on the future of American science...
...UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...
Sponsored by the socially conscious Dance Umbrella, the Pat Graney Company offers an unmistakably political message in "Faith." The problem with this message, however, is that we've heard it all before: women must struggle to assert their own power and decide upon how far they will go to enhance their physical desirability...
...like unionizing: people who can't assert their individual rights can assert them in a group? And women who only follow the traditional path have no protection when men go off and leave them, and then they have no career...
...teams play completely different styles of field hockey, and Caples said that Harvard must assert its style in order to be successful...