Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told me he could not respect student activists because they always ended up as lawyers or businessmen, joining the system they vowed to break. Of course, students must also accept responsibility for Harvard's flaws. Student apathy, callousness, selfishness, rudeness or rhetoric may frustrate any attempt at communication, may confirm this unconscious contempt. Students of the '70s have earned the label of apathetic and self-centered, but a better label might be despairing or resigned. They have learned that change will not happen as quickly as they want, and that meanwhile they must eat. But they have a responsibility...
...APPOINTMENT of Arnold Harberger, chairman of the economics department at the University of Chicago, to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) would confirm Harvard's preference for the big name, even if the fame that comes with it means infamy. In appointing individuals to its various faculties, Harvard should not spurn those whose views are antithetical to the Harvard community's Diversity in a faculty is to be applauded...
...Soviets would be to assure that the rebels have a sufficient and steady supply of arms and ammunition. A number of experts suggest that the U.S. provide such supplies, not directly but through Pakistan, China and perhaps other third parties. The Administration has been considering this, but refuses to confirm or deny whether it has already been providing such support...
...possible outcome. We approached him and his advisers confidentially, asking them to take measures to curb the activity of the groups of Afghans based in Pakistan, or at least stop arming them, and to call upon the Chinese to do the same." Western intelligence sources in fact confirm that some arms have been trickling into Afghanistan from China...
...golds, silvers and bronzes in informal vinous Olympics against the products of some of the world's most astute and experienced winemakers. This is not to suggest, as some Californiaphiles would have it, that the Old Wine God is about to be toppled by the New. It does confirm that California's best wines are now as worthy of serious consideration and consumption as their European progenitors...