It's also a clear sign that few of Yang's minions are backing him after deciding to end months-long talks with Microsoft last week to strike a search-advertising deal with Google, outsourcing business Yang once asserted was key to Yahoo!'s future.
Ukraine has no "Kremlin", wielding authority over all-comers, but that does not make it clean or well-governed.What about the argument that economic development, at least in its early stages, is best pursued under a benign despot? Lee Kuan Yew, an ex-prime minister of Singapore, once asserted that democracy leads to "disorderly conduct", disrupting material progress.
"When we speak," a renowned linguist once asserted, "we exercise the power of language to transform reality". Or, to paraphrase George Carlin, "Meow" can mean "Woof" in Cat. Before, it was all about investment banks, commercial lenders and private equity.
Reasoner had a comfortable, old-shoe, or carpet-slipper, quality — he sometimes seems on air to be catnapping, and, indeed, once asserted off air that his ambition in life was to "sleep twenty-two hours a day, like a dog" — but the editor-in-chief wanted someone more abrasive to balance Reasoner's soothing smoothness.
"The Department's proposed approach reaches a result inconsistent with the unbroken common-law authorities holding the privilege, once asserted, is absolute and not subject to balancing," the brief said.
Thomas Jefferson once asserted that America's republicanism was to be found "Not in the constitution, but merely in the spirit of the people".
Hans Selye, M.D., Ph.D., the father of stress theory, once asserted, "Disease is not mere surrender to attack but also the fight for health; unless there is a fight, there is no disease".
Hans Selye, MD, PhD, the father of stress theory, once asserted, "Disease is not mere surrender to attack but also the fight for health; unless there is a fight, there is no disease".
Hans Selye, MD, PhD, the father of stress theory, once asserted, "Disease is not mere surrender to attack but also the fight for health; unless there is a fight, there is no disease". Our human body has survived these thousands of years because of its incredible adaptive capabilities, and one of the ways that it adapts is through the creation of symptoms.
These days, the rightwing commentators who once asserted "climate change isn't real" typically prefer to argue that measures to tackle climate change are either ineffective, or too expensive.
