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Word: confirms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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State Rep. John Finnegan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, refused to lease the county-owned building. Finnegan's signature was the last of three needed to confirm the $1.4 million appropriation for this year...

Author: By David Lawrence and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: State House Stops New Prison Plans | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

...student source said that the trustees had agreed to cut next year's tuition by $75, a report the administration refused to confirm...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Students at Tufts Protest 1980-81 Tuition Increase | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...came from an ancient Polish family. He traveled around Europe sculpting public monuments and seducing women: at the time Misia's mother was pregnant with her in Belgium, her mother's own aunt in Russia was also pregnant by Godebski. Having trekked to St. Petersburg alone to confirm this monstrous news, Mme. Godebska died in childbirth. Misia grew up mostly in Parisian convents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angel of the Arts | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...many London papers that printed subsequent stories about the buggings, quoted an "impeccable source" as saying: "That was why Lord Carrington could conduct the conference on the basis of brinkmanship. The intelligence sources told him where all the brinks were." A spokesman for the Prime Minister refused to confirm or deny the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Tinker Bell Lives | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...Italy, Berlinguer's zest to condemn the Kremlin was seen by many as a rather obvious attempt to project an image of his party as more European than Communist in order to improve its future electoral prospects Marchais's hard pro-Moscow line seemed to confirm the old quip of former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who said that the French party was "not on the left but in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Eurocommunism Divided | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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