Everyone -- women and men -- need to be more aware of the social cost of punishing girls for being too assertive.

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Girls deemed to be too assertive were often targets.

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But today Redstone cites the need for proper corporate governance and claims Shari must "change her behavior" to win over the boards of Viacom and CBS. Several people say she has rankled Viacom's Dauman, CBS Chief Leslie Moonves and some directors by being, in their view, too assertive and meddlesome.

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Mr Kan's best hope must be that support for the opposition parties is too weak for them to become truly assertive.

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And so that combination of high crime, too few police officers, resulted in a officer safety focus and a very assertive controlling style policing, which unfortunately exacerbated feelings on the part of minorities, African-Americans, Latinos that they were being treated in an inappropriate fashion, particularly those who are law abiding, which is by far certainly the vast majority of the people living in those neighborhoods.

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The prime minister got an earful too from the United States, which used to cite him as the kind of assertive leader Japan needs.

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The rear-end treatment is neither too tall nor too chunky, and is adorned with neatly configured taillights and dual exhausts that are set in a low and assertive-looking fascia.

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