Word: affirmance
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...Plans. The U.S. contribution has been to affirm that bilateral relations between OAS members and Cuba are essentially private affairs. If the treaty amendment passes, the U.S. is ready to attend a second OAS meeting where members will consider a resolution releasing them from their obligations under the embargo. The U.S. will support the resolution, in effect accomplishing what was not done at Quito: lifting the ban by a two-thirds vote. (Reason for another meeting: without it, the Rio Treaty amendment would have to be ratified individually by member states, a process that could take years.) Then, said...
...Government Department voted last week to affirm its belief that Doris H. Kearns, associate professor of Government, received no "under or improper help" in preparing the manuscript that she submitted to the department last fall before it nominated her for tenure...
...food crisis is immense, yet a real solution can not resort to coercion and callousness. Man need not be seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...
...absolute inerrancy who worry about preserving faith; most liberal exegetes share that concern, as well as a profound respect for biblical truth. Yet the truth they discern is of a different order, less tied to the Bible's literal events than to its underlying spirit. The faith such scholars affirm reflects the endemic doubts of modern man, child of the Enlightenment, reading his faith largely in the light of reason...
...believes that it may also be creating more homosexuals, as men without women turn to other men for sexual outlets. "I went through the list of societies which affirm homosexuality and found that in every single case, these societies were polygamous-powerful men could have a couple of wives, so the society accommodated the men left over by affirming homosexuality...