Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draft was not the only cudgel the Baker forces were wielding against Clinton's integrity. Bush has begun to assert with increasing intensity that Clinton's record on the Gulf War, the North American Free Trade Agreement and even fuel economy standards for new automobiles is riddled with inconsistencies...
Bisexual behavior may serve a similar function for another highly intelligent mammal: the dolphin. "Sometimes male dolphins use homosexual sex to assert dominance over other males, and other times they use it in a friendly way, but always they are negotiating relationships," says Richard Connor, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...them inside only after insisting that no Americans could be on the team, Saddam was able to portray himself as a leader on the comeback trail, tenacious and triumphant even against a superpower foe. Senior U.S. and British officials believe that one reason Saddam provoked the showdown was to assert his authority after uncovering a coup plot two months ago that resulted in 200 executions. If Saddam can embarrass Bush and contribute to a Republican defeat in November, the Iraqi President will exact delicious revenge and score another propaganda coup to dishearten potential rivals at home...
...monogamous relationship with another HIV-negative man in which both can throw caution to the winds. The problem is that the tests can be inaccurate, a lover can have unsafe sex outside the relationship and become infected, or a lover can simply lie about the results. Some gay men assert that they have been found HIV negative when in fact they haven't taken a test; they simply feel O.K. and don't think they have done anything especially risky...
...when friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and other acquaintances see how many gays there are, and how many of these people already hold their trust, bigotry will vanish. In a sense, AIDS has done this. Fatal illness has forced some celebrities out of the closet and prompted others to assert their sexuality as an act of conscience. The sheer volume of suffering has made homosexuals less exotic and more sympathetic. Slowly the message is getting across that gays neither invented the disease nor bear special responsibility for transmitting it, that the epidemic is universal. But however much AIDS may have...