It dismantled the three-pronged complaint - which cited inaccuracy, harassment and discrimination - by asserting that each one was a matter of opinion.
Confronting the Governor, Mr. Burns said that Mr. Rocke feller had "maligned" him by asserting that Mr. Burns was one of those who had, offered the chairmanship of the Metro politan Transportation Authority to former City Controller Mario A. Procaccino in return for an endorsement of Mr. Gold berg.
This month, he pointedly opened a White House forum on health care by asserting that exploding costs pose "one of the greatest threats not just to the well-being of our families and the prosperity of our businesses, but to the very foundation of our economy".
By proclaiming that only uncritical love of country qualifies one for the highest office, by asserting that the only true patriotism is one that does not recognize America's flaws, Republicans like Giuliani are effectively declaring that enormous groups of Americans are insufficiently American – positing that some Americans are better than others.
I'm hardly courting controversy by asserting that a brand might fit better in one company's portfolio than in another's.
Of course, one might respond by asserting that the causal theory is true.
One can resist the charge by asserting that some decision framings are more adequate than others and the better framings need not yield consistency with EU theory.
They start by asserting that many people feel more or less successful, but far fewer, even the successful ones, feel satisfied.
The new commercial, entitled "How to Get Rich," says the insurance industry is motivated by greed, and it asserts that one insurance executive -- Ronald Williams, chief executive of Aetna -- received a compensation package of $24 million in 2008, even as costs for insurance premiums rose faster than wages.
