Word: reassert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once announced so adamantly that "it's better to burn out than it is to rust" now summons up autumnal reveries of shadows climbing a garden wall and the first leaf that falls. The aging but still loving couple in the song inquire gently after each other's welfare, reassert their love and realize, "It's the prime of life, where the spirit grows/And the mirror shows both ways...
...message from all these figures is that the breakdown of the American family has much to do with the rise in crime and the drop in educational and behavioral standards. All argue that the regeneration of society will depend on the ability of communities and families to reassert themselves...
When the relationship is in risk of permanent rupture, the violence escalates. At that point the abused female may seek help outside the home, but frequently the man will refuse counseling, convinced that she, not he, is at fault. Instead he will reassert his authority by stepping up the assaults. "Battering is about maintaining power and dominance in a relationship," says Dick Bathrick, an instructor at the Atlanta-based Men Stopping Violence, a domestic-violence intervention group. "Men who batter believe that they have the right to do whatever it takes to regain control...
...sense of tribal solidarity -- a useful distraction from the internal power struggles among northern and southern Hutu. All Rwandans were required to carry racial- identity cards; there was talk of herding Tutsi into certain regions, an apartheid imposed by blacks on fellow blacks. Any effort by Tutsi to reassert themselves met with a vicious and murderous response. "There was bludgeoning of public opinion," argues Philip Reyntjens, professor of law and politics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. "Ethnicity does not necessarily have to give rise to violence, but one can easily manipulate ethnicity to throw people against one another...
...democracy in Russia seems to be hanging by a thread, economic reform has sputtered to a halt, and an enfeebled Russian President seems to slip further into disarray each passing day. No wonder Moscow's neighbors -- and the rest of the world -- are worried about Russia's determination to reassert itself and win back the international respect it considers...