Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While residents of California are quick to distance themselves from the stereotypes of the West Coast, New Yorkers, who comprise about 15 percent of the College's students, readily affirm the images universally associated with their city and its people...
...care about the migrant grape workers and the dangers of their plight. We affirm our long-standing point of boycotting the California grape industry. Nevertheless, Alexandra McNitt, project manager at HDS, is right on target: "All I do is talk about grapes." We feel the same way. Last week the momentum was high: vigils, debates, posters, buttons--everyone had an opinion. And now that energy has been lost. For this reason we are disappointed with Harvard Dining Service's (HDS) handling of the "Great Grape referendum." We push HDS to keep the best option on the ballot: buying grapes only...
Because of the short question-and-answer period, the issue of Taiwan-China relations was never confronted. Though Vogel did not guarantee that a question on Taiwan would be selected, he did affirm that this was an issue of prime importance. Harvard, and people worldwide watching the broadcast of the speech, did not have the chance to hear what Jiang had to say on one of the most relevant questions involved in China and U.S. relations...
...Bill Gates has even pitched in with a full-page ad in Friday's Washington Post that calls fast-track authority "a vote to affirm the essential strength and vitality of the American economy...
...behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less than to change the minds of Americans about what is going on in China and why they should care...