Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sudden it is no longer enough for college athletes to affirm they will play by the rules; now they have to allow the NCAA access to their bodies...
...Marbury vs. Madison. Meese has also managed to laud the decision on McCulloch vs. Maryland in 1819 as an exemplar of intent--the intent, says Meese, to leave lawmaking to Congress. Yet the primary effect of McCulloch, which rejected a state challenge to the national bank, was to affirm federal power over the states in any fundamental legal confrontation. In his opinion, Marshall inveighed against "the baneful influence of . . . narrow construction on all the operations of the government." Despite these heavy wounds, both strict construction and original intent have been summoned up again and again by judicial advocates who have...
These shortcomings do not blunt Nickleby's potent storytelling; they affirm it. In 1981 the show seemed a magic moment in which acting, directing and design had come together to create something wonderful yet ephemeral. The passage of time and the revival by other hands, even if imperfect, allow audiences to see that Nickleby is a permanent, and major, contribution to the literature of the stage...
...shake public support for the President's defense buildup, the White House created a commission last summer to recommend management reforms. But it soon became clear that the commission, chaired by David Packard, multimillionaire businessman (Hewlett- Packard) and former Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Administration, would affirm that billions of defense dollars had in fact been wasted...
...feminism back to reality. Feminism means equal rights and responsibilities for women and men. With that definition, every man and woman at Harvard should be able to call himself or herself a feminist. On March 9, the March for Women's Lives will take place in Washington, D.C., to affirm the rights of all women to control their own bodies and their own lives. Anyone who believes in these basic freedoms should join the march. Feminism should not be left to the theorists and the caricaturists. It belongs in the lives of women...