Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolve of Congress to reassert itself in foreign affairs by passing the law-as well as the law itself -may well prove to be a post-Viet Nam watershed. Observed House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill: "If the President can deal with the Arabs, Israelis and the Soviet Union, he ought to be willing to deal with the Congress of the United States...
...attempt to prove that the summer's roaring inflation has not completely taken the spine out of the President's Phase IV, the Cost of Living Council began to reassert itself. It ordered the nation's major auto firms to cut back their proposed increases in 1974 models by 10% to 30%. The decision still allows the Big Four automakers to raise their prices by amounts ranging from $51 to $74 a car. In addition, the council ordered the big firms in the steel, tire, paper and detergent industries to postpone already-announced price increases until their...
...absorbed into the National Movement, as Spain's one legal party is called -would rise in influence. Carrero Blanco is believed to maintain an affection for veteran Falangists who fought long ago for Franco; he may well decide that it is time for them to be allowed to reassert themselves. Correspondingly, the power of technocrats affiliated with the modernist, religio-political movement known as Opus Dei might decline...
These new demands that Congress reassert itself only dramatize how far the national legislature has fallen; those lost powers were once taken for granted as congressional prerogatives. Nor can the protests be considered merely the customary complaint of the out party over the fact that the other party controls the White House. The decline of Congress began years...
...religion and sex, that "sexuality is by its very nature sacred and by its very nature religious." He concludes by calling upon the Church neither to dabble in "social relevance" nor to keep out of earthly affairs entirely. He would have her reinterpret her myths in order to reassert the importance of the transcendent. The Church, he says, is the only institution in a position to alleviate the despair which he sees all around us, since only religious myths can heal the rift between technology and nature...