Word: affirmance
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...shake public support for the President's defense buildup, the White House created a commission last summer to recommend management reforms. But it soon became clear that the commission, chaired by David Packard, multimillionaire businessman (Hewlett- Packard) and former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration, would affirm that billions of defense dollars had in fact been wasted...
...feminism back to reality. Feminism means equal rights and responsibilities for women and men. With that definition, every man and woman at Harvard should be able to call himself or herself a feminist. On March 9, the March for Women's Lives will take place in Washington, D.C., to affirm the rights of all women to control their own bodies and their own lives. Anyone who believes in these basic freedoms should join the march. Feminism should not be left to the theorists and the caricaturists. It belongs in the lives of women...
However debatable the issues may seem, what could be more disheartening than a Democrat who sides with the advocates of capital punishment with the argument that, "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life that we affirm the highest value of human life...
...like our Puritan forefathers, we New Englanders need to punish ourselves, and to insulate ourselves from the heathen. By banding together to affirm our allegiance to the Almighty Sox-Bruins-Celts, we share a communal misery (and occasionally a communal jubilation) that confirms our faith and purifies our sporting souls...
Chants of "Cory! Cory!" filled the room as Corazon Aquino, 52, spoke into the microphone. "I hereby affirm my candidacy and confirm my willingness if elected to serve our people as President of the Republic of the Philippines." With that declaration, the widow of slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr.--a career housewife and mother of five who has never before run for office--ended weeks of speculation and confirmed that she would ) oppose President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, in a snap election called...