Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the party's 135-member Central Committee voted almost unanimously to reject the Soviet charges against Carrillo and to reaffirm their commitment to Eurocommunism. They maintained that Spain's Communists are answerable only to their supporters in Spain...
...latest round in the two women's battle, which clearly has been running since they "came of political age in the thirties," as Trilling puts it. Most of them are also less interesting. When she is not dealing in personalities and vindictive attacks, Trilling does little more than repeatedly reaffirm her faith in the status quo. A few minor changes would render the system perfect, she implies, and none of those changes include disrupting society. That assumption underlies her argument that the Columbia students who took over a building in 1968 were profoundly misguided; the same assumption underlies her argument...
Seamus P. Malin '62, Harvard's director of financial aid, said last week that in four or five years the Ivy schools may find they are losing students because they do not offer them merit-based scholarships. Nonetheless, the Ivy schools should reaffirm their policy of offering need-based aid only: there is not so much scholarship money available to those who need it that it can be used as a carrot for wealthier students without adversely altering the composition of the student body...
...brief, straightforward speech-and then came the surprise: parliamentary elections, she declared dramatically, would be held in March. "Let us go to the polls," she continued, "with the resolve to reaffirm the power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India as a land committed to the path of reconciliation, peace and progress...
...became the youngest member of Congress by virtue of a special election. He earned his degree years later, but still has not taken the bar examination. His style reminds people of Ted Kennedy and, like Kennedy, he still dresses in white shirts and blue suits, as if he must reaffirm his lace-curtain status...