Word: reasserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, there is ample evidence that the Administration fumbled the issue even more than was initially supposed. But beyond that, a President who finds it necessary to reassert his belief in racial equality as often as Reagan does ("I am opposed with every fiber of my being to discrimination") has a problem more basic and enduring than any specific controversy. Indeed, Reagan frequently finds himself on the defensive on other issues that concern America's underdogs. The President is a politician whose human instincts on most matters are acute. Why are they so dull when the stepchildren of society...
...producer Andrew Loog Oldham to package his charges as popular music's bad little mannish boys. And then, once those boys grew up, came the years totally clouded over by drugs, debauchery, and disillusionment, leading ultimately to Brian's death and the rebirth of the others. Struggling to reassert themselves, the Stones were forced to confront a new problem: how to keep the act spontaneous and rebellious after more than a decade of two-four rhythm. The familiar events are all thrown in, but portrayed from new and interesting angles. The drug bust at Redlands, the tragedy at Altamont...
Hawaiians have also begun to take greater pride in their ways and customs as they struggle to reassert their identity. Two decades ago, churches on the islands routinely refused to baptize children unless they were given Anglicized names; Hawaiians now openly give their children traditional names (most common: Kimo for boys and Mele for girls). At Roosevelt High School in Honolulu, 90 students are now studying Hawaiian; the course did not exist three years ago. Since 1974 ten outrigger racing clubs have sprung up on the island of Hawaii alone. Governor George Ariyoshi, for one, applauds the Hawaiians...
...FORMATION of Poland's independent trade unions poses the single most serious threat to the Soviet Union since the East Bloc was created after World War II. And there can be no doubt that the Soviets will soon seek to reassert their authority by the inhumane, bloody slaughter of Polish workers...
...scent of blackmail there, yet the hard fact remains that the U.S. could restore a much needed degree of transatlantic calm if its fair-weather allies were not quite so nervously eyeing the thunderheads over Soviet-American relations. With calm restored, the U.S. might then be able to reassert the strong leadership and the discipline within the alliance that will be necessary the next time trouble brews between East and West...