Word: confirming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often, participants agree, the theories forwarded by education experts at the Institute help confirm views on schooling they have long held, but had not felt totally comfortable with Organizers say this process is an essential part of the Institute's purpose...
...difficulties -- and opportunities -- in covering the most dramatic international crisis since the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Beirut ranks among the most hazardous assignments in the world, a bloody, berserk place where journalists often are kidnaping targets. Reliable information is elusive and often impossible to confirm. Even the most enterprising correspondents last week had to depend for news on the cooperation of those holding the hostages. Yet in their eager pursuit of the story, reporters risked being exploited by Amal. What began as a frenzied hijacking threatened to become a prolonged publicity showcase controlled by terrorists...
...that, Rolf's declaration was hardly momentous. In legalistic language, the son of the doctor announced, "I have no doubt that the corpse exhumed at the cemetery in Embu is the remains of my father. I am sure that the forensic tests will confirm this shortly . . . I have remained silent until now out of consideration for the people who were in contact with my father for the last 30 years...
...earlier word was "quality," whose utterance was meant to mark off a given artwork from the swarm of others and confirm the precision of a collector's taste. Interesting has the opposite effect. It suspends judgment, covers the rear, and defends the vacuum-cleaner habits of a cultural mass market without precedent in art history. It states, with a sort of coy defiance, that buying this, uh, thang may not be a mistake, even though its owner does not know what to say about it. It acknowledges that by the time thoughtful aesthetic judgment is passed -- a distant prospect, given...
...polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri, 23, on his 600-acre Jumbo Lair...