Word: confirmation
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...Secretary-General Kofi Annan. She said that she had read transcripts of conversations conducted there. Various politicians and commentators were predictably shocked. A Blair press conference was dominated by questions about whether this had happened and, if so, whether it was legal and/or wise. He wouldn't confirm or deny the charge, but he denounced Short and defended the work of intelligence agencies - apparently the same ones who told him Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction - as "even more necessary than ever before ? in an era of global terrorism." At the U.N., most diplomats were unruffled. They...
...same time, he's gearing up for a fight with a probable Democratic nominee whose record as a Vietnam War hero helps buy him credibility to challenge Bush on his military resume. Bush insists he did his duty in Alabama, but the records--and many memories--don't confirm it. And these days, people are paying a lot closer attention to the President's words...
Currently, Greene is working on confirming string theory through telescoping observations of the microwave radiation left from the Big Bang. He believes strings that may have been stretched or smeared out by the expansion of the universe can be measured. Because particle accelerators aren’t powerful enough to detect strings on their own scale, these observations would serve to confirm the theory with practical technology...
After being electronically “poked” by Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean will poke them both back—but refuse to confirm either one as a friend...
...plan to stay at Scripps,” he said, adding that he does not have any serious involvement with the search at Harvard. He would neither confirm nor deny that he was offered the post...