Word: affirmations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tickets go on sale. "I don't know," he says. "I think you have to be suspicious about people who really want to be actors. I demean acting too much to be a really great actor. An actor has to love it so much, and I just can't affirm it. I wish I could do it--it would make life so much easier. But I don't know what I should do in life...
When will the Soviet leaders address the issue of nuclear war winnability and survivability? Party Central Committee Member Leonid Zamyatin equivocates: nowhere does he deny that Soviet military writers promote and affirm in their books and articles the idea of the Soviets' winning and surviving a nuclear war. Albert L. Weeks, Political Science Editor Military Science and Technology New York City
...practical level, one of the root causes of the deterioration in student behavior in recent years is undoubtedly overcrowding. Some of the same Houses that Lowell once intended to hold few more than 300 students now contain more than 400. As any social psychologist or senior tutor will affirm, quarters cramped to that degree inevitably breed tension and unpleasant incidents. Not surprisingly, the committee that called for a race relations foundation last winter cited congestion as a main cause of racial incidents on campus. There's little the University can do, though, in the way of short-run remedies. Until...
...week's end, though, worries about Egypt's stability had been somewhat allayed, as the government in Cairo moved to fill the void. Egypt's parliament endorsed Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed Sadat, and the nation will probably affirm that choice in a referendum next week...
...parties] affirm the right of the Afghan people to choose their own regime and government, and call for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and an end to all foreign interference...