Word: assent
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...America starts to look like a stroke of luck. Amid the prevailing cheer of the postwar nation, his upbeat view of things probably found a more ready audience than it would have in the more somber precincts of Europe. His chief mood is celebration. His chief attitude is assent. Is that the stuff of sweetness and light? Sometimes it is. But who can say no to such engaging sweetness, such abiding light...
...Well, I'd really like to get to Beirut by noon," said the first terrorist. "But I suppose if I go via Teheran I could get extra mileage credit on my free flight plan." The second terrorist nodded in assent...
Ronald Reagan's yearning for a nuclear-free world had some officials in Washington and Western Europe concerned last week that the President had come close to accepting a huge Soviet advantage in conventional forces. Administration officials conceded that the Soviets had not seriously misrepresented the President's assent to a sweeping no-nukes proposal from Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjavik summit. Although it seemed that Reagan might have blundered into this position, White House aides insisted that he had been fully aware of the implications of his bargaining tactics...
...stopped producing chemical arms in 1969. But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has insisted that the U.S. must modernize its chemical arsenal to counter the Soviet buildup of these weapons. Congress has stipulated that funding for the new program is contingent on the assent of NATO allies. Some U.S. Congressmen, however, feel that because the approval came from the defense ministers instead of NATO's political council, it did not meet congressional standards for going ahead with the chemical-arms program...
Whose decision was it to electioneer? According to President Derek Bok (The Crimson, April 15), Mrs. Bok wrote her letter on her own initiative. Is it credible that there was no consultation and assent by the University administration? What role did other Overseers play in this decision? Are there any rules that govern Overseers acitons in the elections and the role of the President...