Word: reconfirms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October somehow a poignant month. Arbitrariness and coincidence take on meaning and inform the temporal map through which I navigate my life. Twenty-eight is one signpost, autumn another and the paragraph on Scorpio in Cosmo's horoscope a third. That's why I have a responsibility to reconfirm this arbitrary meaning for myself each year by celebrating on my birthday no matter what reading, what thesis, or what application is waiting...
...always, writing a prompt thank-you note is a must. The note can be brief and should not exceed one page. In addition to expressing your appreciation, your correspondence will serve to accomplish the following: you can reconfirm your interest in the job, underline how you think your background and skills would fulfill the responsibilities of the position, and demonstrate that you listened carefully...
Jack had some firm ideas. If the news was good, he would not tell his two siblings who tested positive. "I wouldn't tell them that I'm lucky and reconfirm that they're unlucky," he said. He was so certain that he neither wanted nor needed counseling that he had not yet picked the "confidant" who the program stipulates must accompany him to future sessions. "After what I've been through the last 18 months," he said, "I can handle anything...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...