Word: affirmation
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...view the world cynically," he once said). He published an "as told to" book by an aging mobster, Joseph Bonanno. Critics complained that it romanticized the Mafia and objected to its title, A Man of Honor. The title was Korda's, who later explained, "It does not affirm that Simon & Schuster thinks he is a man of honor, but that that is what he claims...
Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the pressing problems the world's major industrial nations face...
...colleagues had found in the blood of patients with the swollen lymph nodes and flu-like symptoms that characterize the early stage of AIDS. Like Gallo, the Pasteur researchers reportedly found signs of the virus in 80% to 90% of blood samples from AIDS patients. Both research groups affirm that the bugs they have found closely resemble the cancer-causing virus discovered by Gallo four years ago. The two groups suspect they have found the same virus. Notes Blattner: "The two labs are independent, but have been collaborating...
Vice President Bush had traveled to Moscow to affirm President Reagan's new commitment to improved superpower relations. He went into his private meeting with Chernenko wearing a tiny lapel pin from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council that showed crossed American and Soviet flags. Bush described his 30-minute chat as "very tempered, very reasonable" and noted that he was returning home "with a certain sense of optimism." According to the Vice President, Chernenko seemed self-assured and responded without using notes. "Mr. Chernenko conducted the meeting without turning from right to left for assistance," said Bush...
...past reactions to similar deployments. The Russians were bound to and gave evidence that they react to such a deployment as pushing the nuclear stakes higher and therefore respond with their own deployment. Sovietologists have been predicting such a Soviet reaction since last winter and recent events affirm this...