Word: affirmed
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...more conciliatory approach to the Palestinian question. "To say, as Rabin does, that Israel will never negotiate with terrorists, is not good enough. Israel must recognize that there is a Palestinian national entity-that the Palestinians have a right to self-determination. But in the process, the government should affirm that Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people...
COMPARED TO HIS predecessor, Ford's personal independence and that of his entourage certainly seem unimpeachable, enough to satisfy Diogenes or W.C. Fields that here, at long last, is an honest man. Nixon continues to affirm his innocence; Ford alludes to Nixon's having been "shamed and disgraced." Nixon's press secretary was a notorious liar; Ford's first press secretary resigned when he felt he'd become a party to deceiving the public. Mrs. Johnson came out for beautifying America; Mrs. Ford comes out for legalizing abortion and ordaining women ministers. When reporters in 1962 asked him if American...
Danehy has submitted an order, still under council consideration, that would affirm council opposition to the concept of selective certification, have the city pay for an attorney used by police in the federal suit and censor Councilors David A. Wylie and Saundra Graham for "public actions which tend to defame the Cambridge Police Department...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the Corporation Subcommittee on Shareholder Responsibility have managed to find enough objectionable points in this year's batch of amendments to vote against a solid majority of them. Harvard opposed, for instance, a series of resolutions asking corporations to affirm their political nonpartisanship because, although the sentiments behind the resolution were noble, the corporations had already said publicly that they are nonpartisan...
That objection seems, of course, to be a minor point; certainly it couldn't hurt the company to affirm its nonpartisanship again. The ACSR and Corporation subcommittee, though, don't operate that way; they generally vote according to the wording, not the spirit, of the resolutions. It's as if both groups, particularly the Corporation subcommittee, vote on each resolution as though, with Harvard's approval, it would immediately go into effect...