Word: reaffirmed
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...Women last July, Eleanor Smeal vowed to take the depleted and discouraged women's movement "back into the streets." In Washington last week, Smeal and more than 80,000 feminists from as far away as Texas and Minnesota did just that with a march along Pennsylvania Avenue to reaffirm their support for legal abortion and birth control. It was the largest women's rights demonstration since a 1978 rally for the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment, and the number of marchers completely eclipsed the 36,000 who attended Washington's annual antiabortion protest in January. The march, which...
...ultimate goal of the College must be to give undergrads the best classroom experience possible, and thus teaching in itself must be stressed. As the College commendably moves to consider teaching ability during the tenure process, it must reaffirm this commitment by allowing these two great instructors to continue teaching to their strengths...
Several audience members joked that watching beautiful people dance for two hours made them reaffirm their commitment to working...
...that it is so broad and hard to define. The challenge, then, for the community, is to allow that broadness, to incorporate disagreeing voices under this general term. The groups that are already a part of the coalition represent this broadness well. We need to remember to reaffirm this diversity as a fundamental virtue. The best way to divide the community would be to define progressivism narrowly...
...homogenous society. In fact, it is our differences that can often make life interesting and worth living. At a time when members of our campus, both administrators and students, are discussing the nature of student groups on campus, it is important that we recognize the inherent value of and reaffirm our support for student organizations that celebrate the uniqueness of various ethnic, cultural, and religious groups. And for the past 25 years, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, an organization whose name reflects its goal, has been committed to bringing students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds together...