Word: affirmatively
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...gloss over the religions' fundamental differences. "This dialogue is not about finding the lowest common denominator, saying we're all alike. It reminds us instead the exigency of the truth, which for us is Jesus Christ," Tauran said. "You need to look, listen and respect the other. But then, affirm your own identity...
...Beyond Roe v. Wade and gay marriage–though both campaigns agree on the latter–lies the desire to achieve stable communities. Spending just under two months in Sociology 155: Class and Culture accentuates how often broken families adversely affect children and how easily these situations affirm poverty through jail rates, school dropouts, and future behavioral patterns...
...AIDS and Reagan and “family values.” Too many of us have gone, but many more of us remain. As we gather to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus this weekend, may we still feel this spirit as we affirm the value of our LGBT family...
...that turbulent climate, the Wall Street Journal stirred up instant thunder last week by claiming that unnamed investment bankers at the houses of Lazard Freres and Goldman Sachs were under SEC investigation in the Levine scandal. Officials at both firms promptly denied the report. One man that Government sources affirm is under investigation, however, is Robert Wilkis, 37, a former vice president at both Lazard Freres and E.F. Hutton. Wilkis resigned from his Hutton post earlier this month. While he was at Lazard in 1984, the firm advised Chicago Pacific in its unsuccessful takeover bid for Providence-based Textron. Government...
...Clearinghouse estimates there were more than 4,000 purity events across the country last year, with programs aimed at boys now growing even faster. And inevitably the criticism arrived as well, dressed up in social science and scholarly glee at the semiotics of girls kneeling beneath raised swords to affirm their purity. The events have been called odd, creepy, oppressive of a girl's "sexual self-agency," as one USA Today columnist put it. Father-daughter bonding is great, the critics agree--but wouldn't a cooking class or a soccer game be emotionally healthier than a ceremony freighted with...