Word: reaffirming
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...Since the FPC usually takes anywhere from six months to two years to make up its mind, the Memphis decision put a damper on the expansion plans of many gas companies; they feared it would take too long to get needed rate increases. In asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the FPC's longstanding rate-fixing practice, the solicitor general noted that "a substantial portion" of the $283 million in planned pipeline projects had been suspended after the lower court's decision...
...under Chilean democratic custom, this was their right. Bouncing back with more zest than politicos thought possible, Chile's Reds proved that they had not slept during their decade of banishment. Each of the 300 delegates who met to choose their new leaders and reaffirm old lines represented 100 militant card carriers with three years of paid-up dues. With a new batch of young recruits, the party boasted 55,000 members...
...keep Lebanon together." Once in office, he will probably ask that U.S. forces be withdrawn. Anti-Communist and essentially pro-Western, he believes Lebanon cannot survive unless it works out a lasting relationship with Nasser. Chehab is likely to withdraw Chamoun's commitment to the Eisenhower Doctrine and reaffirm Lebanese neutrality among Arab lands. Nonetheless, Washington calls him the "best hope" for peace in Lebanon...
Hume is getting an estimated ?3,600 from the Pic, with nothing to fear from British justice in all probability. He cannot be tried again for murder. If tried for perjury, he need only say that the Pic's story is a lie committed for money and reaffirm the testimony he gave at his trial...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General William Rogers would join in nationally televised cere monies with the man who conceived the idea of Law Day: Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, president of the American Bar Association, prime mover in the campaign to get the U.S. this week to reaffirm its faith in the forces of law for peace...