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...negotiations with China, even business negotiations - playing the dash-to-the-airport ruse. Sometimes they literally sign agreements at the airport. There's a lot of political brinkmanship and grandstanding here, most of it meant for domestic consumption. The plane has become a symbol for both sides to assert national dignity...
...become fashionable to hear the SATs are not useful," McGrath-Lewis said. "[The businesses] assert that the SATs are not a good measure of things they value. We use them for admissions to college...
Many South American unions are against the free-trade area. And Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, worries about its inefficient, state-protected industries. Brazil wants to assert itself as the Latin economic and political leader through Mercosur, its customs union with Argentina, Chile and other neighbors, and it will be the region's toughest negotiator...
...Like his forgetfulness, the barren landscape, which inhabits and nurtures no one or thing, is the telltale backdrop for the emotional and psychological journey that the two take. It is in this scenic nothingness and nakedness that Lena, a woman battered and dominated by her incapacitated husband, learns to assert her ownership of herself. Boesman is a man frustrated by his inability to be free, crushed by the weight of apartheid. Eventually, after much personal loss, he even uses his fists against Lena's body to ease his own heartache; it is the only way he can express his anger...
...Steve Moore stepped his game up tonight," Mazzoleni said. "He sensed the need for him to play and assert himself, and he made a major difference tonight that was visible to everyone in the building...