Word: reassert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton the Tokyo conference was supposed to be a chance to shine in foreign affairs and reassert American leadership over the Group of Seven. By last week, however, the outlook had changed to a point where White House aides were scrambling to scale back expectations, pointing to Japan's political tumult as a hindrance to agreements. The sorry truth is that Miyazawa is scarcely alone in his fall from grace. Along with his fellow summiteers, Clinton is plagued by waning faith in his abilities. His first four months in office have made America's allies less respectful of the traditional...
Having dipped in the national rankings from a preseason second to its current fifth, and having watched Ivy rivals Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell steal some of its thunder, Harvard remains eager to reassert itself...
Internationally, the Administration can reassert American efforts to put some substance into the neutered agreements that came out of last June's Earth Summit. Gore has the opportunity to signal determination if he meets with Brundtland. If he were feeling sadistic he might quote from her Harvard commencement address last June, in which she spoke of the vital importance of international agreements, or recite the words of her report, Our Common Future, which cites American economic sanctions as a means of policing agreements on marine conservation. And he might pray that four years later, a successor will not appear...
...facto must precede de jure political union. So, if the integrationists have their way at Maastricht, we can fear disaster in the months or years that follow. If a European superstate materializes, it will dematerialize shortly thereafter. And as countries leave the fold to reassert their political sovereignty (Yugoslavia, Western style?), they just might decide to take back their economic sovereignty as well...
...country slipped deeper into domestic chaos, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week unveiled an "anti-crisis program" designed to reassert Moscow's central control and curb the spreading economic and political unrest. In a speech long on apocalyptic warnings and exhortations to discipline -- but, as usual, short on fresh ideas -- the President called for a moratorium on strikes and demonstrations to be coupled with additional measures to stabilize the economy. Gorbachev threatened tough action against republics that refused to cooperate, but he offered no specifics on how he planned to enforce his program...