Word: reaffirm
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...when I notified the staff of the Jersey Journal that I would take disciplinary action against any member who accepted employment as political pressagent, I was not inaugurating a new policy for the paper. I posted my notice and wrote my letter to all known candidates in order to reaffirm a policy which had been in force since Mr. S. I. Newhouse acquired control of the paper in November 1951. Since that time, no staff member of the Jersey Journal has handled campaign publicity with our consent. As a newly appointed editor arriving in a year of great political activity...
...career of a bigot is by nature a devious one. The story of John Kasper does little to reaffirm one's faith in the people's judgement. Kasper has now gone the way of Father Coughlin and Father Feeney, but his little-mourned departure from the segregationist ranks is not the result of a popular reaction against his views or his tactics. These views and tactics simply turned...
Then when Mr. Conant arrived, he made House residence for undergraduates mandatory. Perforce, out went graduate students, in came undergraduates, so that the ratio soared to one to 44. Now that more Houses, if not Harkness millions, seem assured, it is time to recognize and reaffirm the original aims of the Houses: grad students should return from exile, bringing with them the stimulation they've hidden away in the icy Siberia of the Grad Center...
...conclusions are the focus of world attention, they must also be the focus of American attention on this day before a critical national election. This is the time for new insights, new courage, new intelligence--in short, new leadership--by the American President. For these reasons, we once again reaffirm our support for Adlai Stevenson for the most important office in the world...
...departure from the normal. There is a statement signed by noted educational institutions, representing some of the finest minds in the country, and secondly, there is an affirmation that athletes will not be made privileged students on the campus. Thus the Ivy Group states: "The members of the Group reaffirm their prohibition of athletic scholarships. Athletes shall be admitted as students and awarded financial aid only on the basis of the same academic standards and economic need as are applied to all other students...