They form an exclusive club of Triple Crown horse owners: Penny Chenery (Secretariat, 1973), Sally Hill (Seattle Slew, 1977) and Patrice Wolfson (Affirmed, 1978).
As the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, affirmed last week, Bush stands by the criteria he outlined for such operations in the 2000 campaign: "The mission must be clear.
And two other ratings agencies, Fitch and Moody's, affirmed earlier this week that they thought we were AAA, if also a bit of a mess.
As Mr Dudley affirmed this week, BP's long-term strategy is to keep searching for oil, which is more lucrative than gas.
They lost in Federal District Court but won in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a 1999 ruling, which the Supreme Court affirmed today.
The Federal District Court in Jackson, Miss., dismissed it as untimely on Oct. 24 in a ruling that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed last Friday.
"The Army affirmed today that all 10 of its divisions are combat ready and able to answer the nation's call," it said.
In what seemed an effort to show that he was backing Mr. Abbas, Mr. Arafat affirmed today a decree he first released in 1998 banning groups that espouse violence.
What we have been trying to say for 3 years has been affirmed today in an important way".
