Word: reaffirms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly no one would condone John De Lorean's actions. Nevertheless, we should be grateful to him. Our society craves such people in order to reaffirm our self-worth and goodness. The higher they are and the harder they fall, the greater...
...frightening thing about the past week, then, is the way otherwise cautious educators have rushed to reaffirm their faith in the scores now that they're showing what everyone wants to see. The Times's unqualified validation of SAT scores as an educational indictor seems particularly ominous, since the press has no reputation at stake on the scores--unlike the College Board, which understandably called a press conference...
...Israeli Invasion of Lebanon: I believe the bitterness caused by the invasion cannot yet be evaluated, but it will have consequences contrary to those that the planners of this dirty operation had imagined. We reaffirm the saying: we are always with any Arab, wherever he may be, against any foreigner if he is an aggressor against Arabs...
...opposed such a numerical target because he believed it would be an unfair way to gauge the relative contributions of member nations, and over the past three years has led only to fruitless finger pointing. Washington dropped the idea. Besides, noted one high State Department official, "an attempt to reaffirm the 3% would have failed...
...greater U.S. awareness of the modifications it must make in several of its policies to take better account of the interests of the whole Western world. What the Americans may expect from Western European countries, in turn, is that they resolve to assure their common destiny, and reaffirm their solidarity with...