Word: confirmed
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...graduate school admission officers say the thesis is only one of many factors that goes into the admissions decision, but that the thesis can confirm acceptance of an already strong candidate...
...University of California (UC) Board of Regents will hold a teleconferenced meeting today at 3 p.m. EST, where they are expected to confirm the nomination offered by UC President Richard Atkinson...
...they want to show that it's business as usual," says a senior State Department official. Vice President Al Gore is expected in March. The national parliament opens its annual session that month, and the 15th Party Congress, the important meeting held every five years to fix policy and confirm leadership positions, is scheduled for the fall. Trickiest of all, Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control on July 1 and will be the world's litmus test of China's behavior. How Jiang handles this rush of events will be weighed by every domestic political rival, Chinese citizen and foreign...
...person familiar with how the Web works would know, communication anonymity is hard to achieve for Web browsers, and almost impossible for Web publishers. As for electronic mail, which, due to its design, is easier to "spoof" with anonymous messages, there are simple ways to authenticate messages to confirm their senders' identity. Internet users ought to be educated to treat any anonymous or unauthenticated mail with suspicion and caution. For those who truly take offense to anonymous or unauthenticated messages, software filtering is also easy to set up. The mailing list mentioned in the article could have been...
National surveys conducted in 1989-1990 confirm the perception that the public has not reached a definitive conclusion about abortion. When asked to consider all the arguments pro and con, 51 percent identified themselves as opposed to abortion, 41 percent in favor, and 8 percent claimed to be neutral or unsure. An even greater proportion held abortion to be morally wrong--61 percent, compared to 22 percent who judged it morally permissible...