Word: affirmativeness
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...least until the end of the month and follow that with two weeks of convalescence at a sanatorium. The U.S. has made a very private offer of medical assistance but so far has received no response. As next in line for the presidency, Chernomyrdin has been careful to affirm that Yeltsin remains fully in charge even while hospitalized. Still, the Defense and Interior ministers, together with the chiefs of the security services--the crucial power ministers, as they are called--as well as the Foreign Minister, have been reporting directly to the Prime Minister...
...made it easy for us to overlook his biases. Quite the contrary--the march itself reeks of Farrakhan's chauvinist attitudes. I have nothing against the all-male nature of the march. I believe there is a real need for a day in which black men can affirm their unique spirit. However, Farrakhan, in what I am certain he considered to be a token gesture to his black sisters, told the women of the black community to join in this "holy day of atonement and reconciliation" by refraining from shopping and instead spending time with their children, teaching them self...
California then enacted its own 26 degree standard, but the Broiler Council went to court and won. Federal rules, said a frustrated U.S. appeals court, pre-empt state laws. "We affirm this absurdity," the judges wrote. "Congress has given federal bureaucrats the power to order that frozen chickens be labeled fresh." The Clinton Administration promised to review the issue promptly. That pledge, as an internal USDA memo reveals, was little more than a public-relations exercise designed to cover an "embarrassing" policy that "puts the USDA in the position of being anti-consumer." A press release was issued in February...
...label is necessary, Hansen would rather be known as a leader of the "religious left," believers who may be conservative theologically, but who don't embrace the agenda of the American right. Hansen is quick to affirm the faith of, say, members of the Christian Coalition, but he rejects their political viewpoint as contrary to his understanding of what the Old and New Testaments teach...
...contend that the Frontline reports were biased. "Generally, movies and docudramas about high-profile cases tend to be prodefense because the defense is where the producers are able to gather most of their information," notes North Carolina attorney general Mike Easley, who will ask the state supreme court to affirm the Little Rascals convictions. "Defense attorneys are much more facile in winning the public-relations aspects of these visible cases...