Word: confirm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asked point-blank at his Wednesday press conference to confirm or deny reports that he had already decided on a military response, Reagan grew visibly uncomfortable and replied, "This is a question that, as I say, is like talking about battle plans or something. It's not a question that I feel I could answer." In fact, the President that morning had approved a tentative decision to launch an attack. The decision was made by the National Security Council, meeting in the Oval Office (minus Vice President George Bush and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who were both traveling...
...from his history, Moammar Khadafy will not be intimidated. The greater likelihood is that waving the mailed Western fist over Libya will inflame anti-American passions and inspire an escalation of Arab terrorism. Where the populace perceives America as the evil aggressor, civilian casualties and piles of rubble only confirm the hostility...
...agree, and said in the article, that there are in fact some athletes at Harvard who confirm the scholar-athlete stereotype. I refuse to be misread as lumping all athletes together in the negative stereotype...
...However, I don't believe the letter-writers would deny that there are some athletes at Harvard who do in fact confirm the negative stereotype...
...timing of the two announcements was no accident. A heated rivalry has raged between French and American researchers for two years; Montagnier and Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute each claims to have been the first to discover the AIDS virus. Bickering aside, both new findings help confirm the theory that the AIDS virus evolved from a microbe that commonly infects African green monkeys, apparently causing them no harm. Essex's team identified the monkey virus last year and speculated that it had first spread to humans who ate monkey meat or were bitten by the animals. Somewhere...