Word: reaffirming
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...speeches and documents at this week's NATO summit in Rome, the 16 member heads of state and government will reaffirm their faith in the alliance and approve an updated Strategic Concept that has been in the making for more than a year. That 50-page policy statement calls for smaller, more mobile forces in Europe and for keeping NATO's multinational military command intact...
...saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return to the world stage, which we had never left," says Valery Zakharov, the deputy general director, "but to reaffirm our place there...
...member denomination was the first to face the full implications of the sexual revolution. As far back as 1970, a church panel, echoing Fletcher's approach, declared that "sexual expression . . . cannot be confined to the married and about-to-be-married." Irate traditionalists got that year's assembly to reaffirm the sinfulness of adultery, fornication and homosexual practice, but their motion passed by a paper-thin margin...
...have a message for the Kennedy School: We will not accept this kind of cowardice. We expect the Kennedy School to reaffirm its support to encourage gay and lesbian faculty and students to bring their backgrounds and interests to Harvard. Morris Ratner HLS Coalition for Civil Rights Charlie Flatt '92 and Sheila Allen '93 Harvard College BGLSA and five other leaders of gay and lesbian groups from Harvard's graduate schools
That is why -- despite its veneer of banana-republic brinkmanship -- the current congressional revolt is a return to pre-Reaganite tradition. The President's weather-vane vacillation has forced the House to reaffirm its constitutional role as originator of taxation and spending measures. The result: the eruption of the long-suppressed ideological debate over the size and scope of the Federal Government...