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Word: confirms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford must be kidding. The ex-Governor has failed in three attempts at another national office, the presidency. What is frightening is that Congress might forget this and confirm him. "A heartbeat away" is too close for comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...wife will remain together after death. More often, though, the work is for the dead. Mormons devoutly believe that the dead who did not have an opportunity to do their temple work while on earth should be given the chance for the salvific rites after death; accordingly, they baptize, confirm and seal the marriages of ancestors for generations past and spend hours on genealogical homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind the Temple Walls | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Clarence Anderson case spotlighted the process of "internal investigation" carried out by police. Department investigators recorded testimony from police officers and witnesses to the Anderson incident and stored the tapes in the office of the police planner. Police confirmed later that a person entered the office on August 21 without authorization and apparently listened to the tapes. The Boston Globe reported last month, however, that tape interviews with eight policemen were stolen. The police would neither confirm or deny that story...

Author: By Richard H. P. sia, | Title: Citizens Assail Police Conduct | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Horner's psychological data seem much more strongly to confirm the hypothesis not that women are afraid to succeed, but that they are afraid to fail. And this alternative theory is borne out by the melange of statistics published in recent years by the OGCP and the Office of Women's Education--an office established by Horner and under her ultimate jurisdiction--concerning the career goals of women undergraduates. These figures suggest women are no less anxious about "making it" in their chosen fields than are their male counterparts...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: The Century-Old Merger Issue | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Should Viking find even the most primitive organism, it will help confirm what many scientists suspect: that life is not unique to earth and is probably commonplace throughout the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Life Lab | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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