Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to such requests, the committee may either grant a new hearing, reconsider its decision without a new hearing, or deny the request and reaffirm its original decision...
...imperial seat, surrounded by its lying architecture. One of the isolated Americas superimposed on another. How many times had we all been through the very same ceremony? It was as if we had to gather every so often to make sure that we existed. Each individual had to reaffirm periodically that he was at least part of one of the Americas, even if that America was hopelessly at odds with all the others. Each individual had shuddered at the thought that he could believe only in himself...
...seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that the U.S. in its own self-interest must reaffirm its old, and unfortunately unfulfilled, goal of making the hemisphere a better place in which to live for all Americans, both north and south...
There is another reason for not hurting people. We should try to reaffirm the difference between people and property. One of the deepest philosophical bases of capitalism is the belief that a person is his property. Since you are what you can buy, your purchases are an extension of yourself. Indeed, as Marx writes in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, "If money is the bond which binds me to human life, and society to me, and which links me with nature and man, is it not the bond of all bonds? Is it not therefore also the universal agent...
...reconsideration of either the findings of fact or the disciplinary action. offering in writing reasons why he believes reconsideration to be appropriate. The Committee will consider the request and may either grant a new hearing or reconsider the decision without a new hearing. or deny the request and reaffirm its decision...