Word: reassertion
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...cease-fire. They don't particularly want negotiations right now. They know it may take Arafat a while to reassert the kind of control he had before the intifadah, but right now his security people are not working on Hamas at all. And many of his own personnel are engaged in shooting attacks...
...history of theater and film. He fumbles initially, but by the time his second monologue comes around he's moved into his role with enough assurance to tell as good a story as you'll find in any pub around. Will these stories supplant the movies and reassert the centrality of theater to the cultural life of nations across the globe? Probably not. But there's something satisfying about hearing them, something that no amount of cinematic smoke and lights can begin to touch. Some might say this is how theater got started, in the performing of stories. Whether...
...after the winter peak-demand period, perhaps to less than $30 per bbl. by spring and even into the low-$20 range by the end of 2001. Says Yergin, one of the country's foremost experts on the energy supply: "We should see the fundamentals of supply and demand reassert themselves over the tension that has been driving the market for much of this year...
Hence the search for remedies: the Florida legislature threatening to reassert its prerogative to make law, either by reaffirming the original language of the election law that the court grossly misconstrued, or by simply appointing their own presidential electors; Congress contemplating exercising its own authority to recognize electors, should the Florida delegation turn out to have been manufactured by a court...
...solve the problem. For much of the past seven years, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount, at least 80 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured, mostly...