Word: reaffirmed
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...many teachers in Massachusetts are rapidly approaching retirement, it is particularly vital that the teachers who are hired within the next few years be the best teachers possible, as they will likely be educating our children for years to come. Teachers and their organizations should reaffirm their support of higher teacher salaries. Our children deserve the best public schools possible, and the most effective way to provide them is to attract the best teachers possible by raising teachers' salaries. April R. Gleason is a first-year in Holworthy Hall...
...current family ties. Unlike biological families, in which a child can see resemblances and grasp a genealogical connection, families formed by adoption have to take special steps to make a child feel secure. This can range from reaching out to religious leaders and extended family in order to help reaffirm the adopted child's inclusion, to keeping a watchful eye out for unhelpful, if well-intended, teasing ("My little Mexican one"). Lyn and Arthur Dobrin of Westbury, N.Y., adopted an African-American child, Kori, as a sibling to their biological son Eric. They devised a game they called Categories...
Boston may reaffirm its title as the hub of the universe, if it wins the coveted right to hold the Democratic National Convention...
...midst of an identity crisis, and the races for Speaker and Majority Leader are a rare chance for Republican leaders to hold a referendum on their party's future. Returning social conservatives to these positions will only reaffirm the current leadership's increasingly extremist stance on gay rights and abortion, to name a few issues. The party would be better off heeding the message voters sent Tuesday and finding a more moderate leader...
...half ended with the score deadlocked at2-2. Forty-five minutes of grueling back-and-forthaction had done nothing but reaffirm that thiscontest would become a classic...