Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state. The nonpartisan American Association of Retired Persons, boasting 300,000 members in the state, is spending $250,000 on TV ads and phone banks to prompt older Iowans to make their presence felt on caucus night. Senior-citizen centers are frequent campaign stops, as most candidates vie to affirm their commitment to the sanctity of ever rising Social Security benefits. Only Babbitt, who advocates full taxation of benefits for the affluent, and Dole, who is willing to freeze cost of living adjustments, dissent from this united front of pandering politicians...
Reagan, in a speech to his Cabinet and more than 1,000 political appointees, said the final year of his presidency will be "the year that the United States will strongly affirm that democracy, not communism, is the future of Central America...
THERE NO longer are laws requiring that white children and Black children go to separate schools. Nor are there left any laws which set aside bathrooms, lunchcounters or drinking fountains for the use of whites only. In addition, there are laws which actively affirm and protect the right of Blacks to vote, making possible substantial Black representation among the nation's mayoralty and a growing and influential Black voting bloc in Congress...
...assume the best. It's easy to judge a decision in retrospect. It's of only marginal honor to Bork that he is able to affirm now the success of decisions and legislation he vehemently derided when they were rendered. It's not unfair to ask of a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court where he was when it counted, when the great issues of his time were being debated and decided. What claims might Justice Bork dismiss today whose validity and utility will seem painfully clear tomorrow...
...decades earlier could have been invoked to legitimate outside intervention on the Ibo's behalf. Indeed, the French government of Charles de Gaulle, before initiating covert military assistance to the rebels, declared: "The bloodshed and suffering of the Biafran people for more than a year shows their will to affirm themselves as a people...