Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of these planning problems are being solved. Only by acquiring additional computers can the University ease the strain on its system and reaffirm its commitment to computer literacy, a commitment begun with the Core computer requirement and continued by the recent approval of a computer science concentration. Hundreds of students have signed a petition calling for beefed--up computer facilities, not just for AM110 but for thesis writers, low priority users and students enrolled in other computer courses...
When practiced at certain universities, heckling to silence and expel the intruder achieves a tribal quality; it becomes a gesture of group solidarity, a way that certain zealots in the academic capsule reaffirm the received wisdom of their tribe and symbolically slay the stranger. As such, it is after all a comparatively harmless practice. If academe were more profoundly primitive, undergraduates might have to initiate themselves into the group by, say, ritually mutilating a Republican...
...guarantee in-house loans or grants to the nonregistered students whom the law would affect. It is up to the University, now discussing its response to the law, to fill the financial void. By supplying such funds. Harvard need not make a political statement against registration; it would merely reaffirm its current policy of supplying all aid a student needs, regardless of how much of that money comes from outside sources...
...least obliquely an attempt to erase lingering resentment. All four countries Reagan visited are fiscally wobbly, Brazil most prominently. There Reagan reassured Figueiredo that the U.S. is not about to let Brazil's precarious economy, the world's tenth largest, collapse. Reagan also went south to reaffirm his Administration's antagonism toward the hemisphere's first Marxist regime (Fidel Castro's Cuba) and the latest (Sandinist Nicaragua). His stops in Costa Rica and Honduras symbolically isolated Nicaragua, which is wedged in between. Reagan also conferred with President Alvaro Magafta of El Salvador and Guatemalan Strongman...
...President has few viable policy options. He seems likely to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the Carribean Basin plan the White House unveiled last spring. That program had a handful of promising long-range features designed to shore up Latin American economies. For example, most basin exports to the U.S. were to be duty-free, technology transfers were to increase and Washington was going to help bail out financially strapped countries like Honduras and Costa Rica with additional non-military aid. But most of these measures have bogged down in Congress, where senators and representatives give what gifts they...