Word: attestation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, it would be unfortunate if the economic rivalry led to a round of imprecations and protectionism. As the Nixon Administration's difficulties with Europe amply attest, the American challenge never did lead to the political domination that the French forecast in the 1960s. Instead, the U.S. commercial migration has yielded some healthy dividends, including new management and marketing techniques. By aiming to sell to the quarter-billion people who constitute the Common Market, the hard-hustling Japanese are likely to have a bracing impact as well on Europe's business...
Sexual stereotypes still exist--to which nearly every woman in the University can attest with at least one anecdote--and hurt women. A graduate student in math overheard a distinguished visiting professor seriously remark when he learned that there were eight women in the department: "But women can't do math...
Nixon suffered the further indignity of hearing his Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew, attest to his boss's integrity -thereby calling attention to the fact that it was in question. For several weeks, Agnew's aides had spread the word that the Vice President was "appalled" by Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal. But Agnew last week read a 90-second prepared statement saying that he wanted it known that "I have full confidence in the integrity of President Nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the Watergate matter to the full satisfaction...
According to its manufacturers, methaqualone is a dependable and effective sleeping pill. Blurbs in the standard Physicians' Desk Reference attest to its "sedative and hypnotic" effects and its ability to induce prompt sleep, but warn that the drug may also produce dependency. The warning is appropriate. Though the drug may be safe if it is taken as prescribed by a physician, increasing numbers of Americans-especially on campuses and in ghettos-are obtaining the drug illegally and taking it indiscriminately. Methaqualone is rapidly becoming one of the most popular -and dangerous-drugs of abuse in the U.S. The Government...
...that is home for most of the Mobral students. There are three classrooms, and at night about 80 students crowd onto the two-man benches to learn to read under four naked light bulbs dangling from the ceiling. They are working people, as their rough hands and faded clothes attest. They are clearly still not used to handling a pencil; they clutch them as though they might escape. Copying words from the blackboard, the students trace every letter with infinite pains, eyes darting from paper to board two or three times for each word, erasers gripped in the other hand...