Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson & Johnson's nightmare began to subside last week, another company's may have begun. Consumers in several states, including Florida, Georgia and Maryland, claimed to have found bits of broken glass in Gerber baby food and fruit juice. Local and federal authorities began trying to confirm the incidents to determine whether any pattern existed. But FDA officials suspected that if glass was indeed found in the Gerber containers, ) it was the result of jars that chipped during shipment rather than a rash of copycat mayhem...
...American negotiating team arrived in Iran to work for the release of the embassy hostages, the student captors broke into the U.S. embassy files, finding enough evidence to confirm "in their minds that the embassy was a nest of spies...
NASA officials refused to confirm or deny reports that a large section of the crew compartment had been located. Some photo analysts contend that what appears to be parts of the shuttle can be detected emerging from the catastrophic fireball just after the blast (see photo). The official reticence was understandable. Any such speculation would raise the grim possibility that death was not as mercifully quick for the stricken astronauts as has been widely assumed. Still, however painful the results, the search for all such evidence has to be pursued if the mystery of Challenger's demise...
Though Putnam says that the movement was spearheaded by some of the leading scholars of the department (he would not go on the record with their names), no high level academician will confirm Putnam's accusation. In fact, Professor Robert Keohane said that it was Putnam himself who was in the greatest rush to get home that night...
Chants of "Cory! Cory!" filled the room as Corazon Aquino, 52, spoke into the microphone. "I hereby affirm my candidacy and confirm my willingness if elected to serve our people as President of the Republic of the Philippines." With that declaration, the widow of slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr.--a career housewife and mother of five who has never before run for office--ended weeks of speculation and confirmed that she would ) oppose President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, in a snap election called...