Those dollar figures will probably be eclipsed by the coming Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," with its $60 million budget - though the "Spider-Man" director, Julie Taymor, asserted in a recent interview with The New York Times that Broadway's "Shrek" cost well more than $25 million.
Yet Robin Kane, media director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, asserted in a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed piece Thursday that it was "rampant homophobia," not the syndicated "Jenny Jones" talk show, that triggered Scott Amedure's murder last week.
Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, asserted in a post on Twitter that David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, had been charged for doing far less than Mrs. Clinton, and the lack of charges showed that the system was "rigged".
Mr. Daniels, the budget director, asserted that Washington was "in another of those periods of collective solipsism" and should not overestimate its importance in the financial markets.
As Amy Liu, Vice President and director of the MPP, asserts in a recent Brookings blog post, "It's time to change how leaders benchmark progress and measure metro economic success".
At their regular monthly meeting on June 20th, the independent directors asserted themselves — allowing a five-person committee to replace the Bancrofts in any negotiations about a sale.
Or as the Hungarian director nervily asserts in the film's production notes, "We people living today have done all we can to put ourselves in mortal danger and only a miracle can save us". The solution, she proposes, is to reconnect to the folkloric past, when the Devil and the Virgin Mary manifested themselves all over the place, and wait for salvation.
Directors asserted that they relied on a consultant who later said that he had never endorsed the big payouts and had objected to them in 2001.
More recently, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, asserted in his 2011 book "A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness" that depression "makes leaders more realistic and empathic, and mania makes them more creative and resilient".
The directors asserted that the committee had "thoroughly evaluated" Clearwire's prospects and that Sprint's offer of $2.97 a share was fair.
