Word: affirmative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dancing Legend John W. Bubbles, who created the role of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess, lifts a still rakish derby and a still raffish tenor in It Ain't Necessarily So. Wilson is now halting of step and Bubbles is confined to a chair. Their performances affirm that careers may be long to a particular age, but talent is ageless...
...possible extensions, after the trial finishes to file briefs supporting their positions. The administrative law judge then takes the case under advisement, and usually issues his decision within a year or two. The decision then goes to the five members of the NLRB in Washington, D.C., who can either affirm, amend, or send the decision back for reconsideration and further proceedings. The NLRB decision can then be appealed, adding further delays. It is not self-enforcing; the NLRB must file for an enforcement order--in Malin's case in the First U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. This order...
...leaders in Tehran have been demanding that Washington confess and apologize for alleged crimes against the Iranian nation supposedly committed while the U.S. backed the Shah. Though the Administration remains adamantly opposed to anything smacking of an apology, it seems ready to issue a statement that would affirm Iran's inviolable sovereignty and pledge not to interfere in its internal affairs. Washington especially has been balking at any reference in such a statement to the CIA-backed coup that returned the Shah to his throne in 1953 or to any wording that depicts the Shah as an American puppet...