Word: reasserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II, the French decided to reassert their century-old economic and political influence in Viet Nam. But by the mid-1940s they found themselves battling the nationalist ambitions of the Communist Viet Minh and their French-educated leader Ho Chi Minh. By 1954, with Viet Minh control spreading across the countryside, the French chose the valley of Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political...
...required an aristocratic blindness to humane concerns. Bligh is seen losing control of self and ship when his men fail to respond to considerate treatment. The situation worsens when he prudishly disapproves of their licentiousness during their months ashore on the sybaritic island, grows desperate as he attempts to reassert harsh discipline once the ship sets sail again...
OBVIOUSLY, one goal put forth for the pullout is to depoliticize UNESCO, to strip off its radical political edge. Another is to reassert America's leadership in the organization and in the international community generally. And a third is to force UNESCO crats to be more efficient with their money, which comes largely from the U.S. (we cast the lone "no" in the most recent budget vote at UNESCO). But what his attracted more attention than all of these is the outery at UNESCO for the licensing and regulation of journalists. The media here rightly criticizes any international government control...
...world becomes more and more of our own making, it seems less and less under our control. By showing the simple structure which underlies a complex new technology, books such as DNA for Beginners and The Gene Age help us to reassert control over it. DNA for Beginners, in particular, provides a wonderful way to humanize an otherwise bewildering subject...
...course, contrary to common sense to assume that any trend will keep on advancing until it triumphs all along the line. A trend postulates a countertrend, a force to be overcome, and if that latter has any raison d'etre to begin with, it will eventually reassert itself, and turn things around. The Hegelian triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis has much to recommend it as a scheme of change...