Word: reaffirmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August, Councillor and Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf introduced an order to reaffirm the city government's support of abortion rights, which was defeated because it did not receive the requisite five votes needed to pass...
...well as skills and eccentricities. Can they whistle by putting their fingers in their mouths? (Eighty-three percent cannot.) Do they like the way they look in the nude? (Fifty-nine percent do not.) Some responses stretch credibility (70% said they had no unmatched socks in their drawers). Others reaffirm intractable vices (72% squeeze the toothpaste tube from...
...time aspire to an armed revolution that the Soviet Union will subsidize," he said. He suggested that the F.M.L.N. would now be willing to embrace a "multiparty system." Asked if he could coexist with the right, Villalobos responded, "Of course," but went on to say of ARENA, "After you reaffirm your legitimacy in an electoral contest in which we all participate, you have every right to turn back every reform you wish and to do with the country what you will...
Sexually explicit movies may lead some young men to reaffirm the all-too- common male attitude that when a woman says no she really means yes. Many experts believe that such films may be a contributing factor in date rape, one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes. "Teenagers are only doing what they are told to do," says sociologist Gail Dines-Levy of Boston's Wheelock College. "They are being conformists, not deviants...
...excited to play whichever team comes out of it," Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said. "It gives us a chance to play Princeton again, to reaffirm that we're the better team, and UVA is a Southern team we've always heard about but never got a chance to match up against...