Word: affirmativeness
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...spring of 1980, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended that the Harvard Corporation affirm two shareholder resolutions that prohibited the companies from selling products to the South African government...
...professors or lecturers after a few years, we’ve complained about final clubs and backstabbing social climbers, we’ve rejoiced in each others’ triumphs on the playing field, in the paper, and in true friendships and relationships. We were both always there to affirm each others’ good intentions, too, when no one else saw them...
...China, visits from Lien and Soong are no-losers: it gives away nothing but a few rounds of toasts and, in return, gets top Taiwan politicians to come and affirm the goal of eventual unification. Beijing also managed to appear graceful toward its so-called renegade province just six weeks after the passage of an antisecession law that commits it to war if Taiwan declares independence. (Washington was a booster of the Lien visit, but also urged Beijing to "reach out" to President Chen...
...should be open to evaluating individual travel plans on a case-by-case basis, taking into account language skills, cultural and ethnic background and the specific regions in-country that each student plans to visit. As Harvard embarks on a major new study abroad initiative, it must affirm its commitment to providing students with as diverse a set of international experiences as is possible...
...Soviet propagandist's delight. The Soviets play the Nazi-West Germany theme night and day. It is false. West Germany's honorable history is its refutation. Why then a visit that cannot fail symbolically to affirm...