Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really saying-I shouldn't put it so bluntly, but I will-my impression is that what you're really saying is that you have no intention of withdrawing from the West Bank at all." No one on the Israeli side responded. The silence seemed to confirm Carter's apprehension...
...gone for three tedious weeks in Room 2228 of the New Senate Office Building. The committee is ostensibly holding hearings on whether the Senate should confirm Jimmy Carter's promotion of Civiletti, 42, to be the Justice Department's second-ranking official. No one on the committee has raised serious doubts about his fitness for the job. But the G.O.P. members have been holding the nomination hostage while they take political pot shots at the Administration. "We're all political animals," admits Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt...
Khatemi himself can no longer confirm or deny the story: he died in a glider accident in 1975. Proxmire did produce the attorney for a former Bell sales agent, who testified that Khatemi's ownership of Air Taxi was common knowledge in Iran, and that this fact had been called to the attention of top executives of Textron's Bell Helicopter division in the mid-1960s. The executives, however, testified that they had considered the talk "cocktail-party rumor," unworthy of reporting to Miller. That seems plausible enough. At the time Bell officials were allegedly informed of Khatemi...
...chant any of the many names of God but the most successful and easiest chant is the maha-mantra, which goes "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." By chanting and dancing the devotees confirm the existence of their eternal souls as part of God, and their bodies as transient carriers of their souls...
...printing plant on the condition that its location not be revealed. TIME, which had made an offer for magazine rights to the book, attempted to determine the highlights of its contents by talking to some of those who were familiar with the work. Lipscomb two weeks ago offered to confirm or deny some details TIME had learned, but changed his mind after he had heard them...