Word: confirms
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This time around, union officials expect that the NLRB will confirm the Board's earlier decision and will permit an election in the near future. But Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for labor relations, said yesterday, "There are still a lot of issues left unresolved from last time...
...STATISTICS tell the disheartening story: Five of Harvard's 356 tenured Faculty members are Black, four are Hispanic and 12 are Asian American; 12 senior Faculty members are women. It didn't take a five-month-long study to confirm the obvious--that no matter what department you are in, your chances of encountering anything but white, male professors are slim. But the report on minority and women Faculty members, released this week, does more than present data; it looks between the rows and columns of figures to examine the reasons underlying the sad statistics...
...discovery of dinosaurs in the nineteenth century provided, or so it appeared, a quintessential case for the negative correlation of size and smarts. With their pea brains and giant bodies, dinosaurs became a symbol of lumbering stupidity. Their extinction seemed only to confirm their flawed design...
...sooner had the Defense Secretary taken issue with his critics on U.S. readiness than a Pentagon memo was leaked that seemed to confirm their worst fears. Major General James H. Johnson, vice director of plans and operations for the Joint Chiefs, instructed a subordinate to hold up a readiness report because Brown had "expressed concern that our current . . . formats only emphasize the negative aspects." The Secretary, Johnson added, has asked for "greater emphasis on the positive factors." Though Brown had been grousing for weeks about the readiness rating system, he did not dictate the embarrassing memo. It was, said...
Berry, Davis and Glazer yesterday declined to confirm their votes or to comment on the decision. White was unavailable for comment...