Word: affirmative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon Administration sought a foreign policy that eschewed both moralistic crusading and escapist isolationism. The subtlest critique of our policy held that our emphasis on national interest ran counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate...
Tough talk from new friends wanted to express an even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
Tonight, students have what is probably their last chance to force the Corporation to re-affirm the absolute ban of years past, a concession students won through their protests in 1978. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility meets at 7:30 p.m. to consider the case-by-case proposal: if the ACSR lends its support to that recommendation, the Corporation is virtually certain to approve it permanently. Only the loudest of objections by the ACSR has a chance to influence the Corporation and only the loudest of protests by students, in turn, seems likely to move the ACSR...
...conference started with shrill accusations that the Administration had "rigged" committee assignments to affirm President Reagan's views. Worried about the growing backlash against the White House, President Reagan made an unscheduled appearance to dispel doubts that he was "somehow an enemy of my own generation." The conclave ended Thursday with shouts of protest as 2,266 delegates were compelled to approve or reject a package of 600 often contradictory resolutions with a single yes or no vote...
...shrugs. "The way I see it, it comes down to a basic decision between two directions. One is to really affirm and exploit the artistic side--the side I live in here. But I don't know--that would never sever the connection, never cut the umbilical cord--it would be like never leaving mother. Sometimes I just want to eschew acting--to be a statesman, to reconcile the U.S. and the USSR or something...