Word: assents
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...Cold War). Critics then scoffed at the viability of Star Wars. They are scoffing too at the new missile shield. The difference is this system is not only being tested but is also being demanded by a majority of the U.S. Congress, with the assent of the White House. The geopolitical implications may resurrect the cold war. Says U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: "It could well lead to a new arms race...
...knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during the mid-'60s she spent teaching history at a small black college in Mississippi; her love affair with a charismatic music teacher named Eljay Reece; their estrangement when she became pregnant, and her anguished assent to his demands that their daughter be raised by him and among people who would accept her as one of them...
...Coop, the response to the new competition seems to be going well. When asked if students were using the new price-matching service, Hendricks answered with energetic assent...