Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choose to work outside the University, but Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, estimates that "a surprisingly high number" of them are taking advantage of the over 50 consulting firms in Cambridge to supplement their academic salaries. And executives of these companies confirm that Harvard professors are regularly taking advantage of the boom in their business...
...players confirm that things have been looking up for the soccer team since the confrontation two weeks ago. Lyman Bullard said yesterday that Ford has done "an unbelievable job of changing the things that people were complaining about...
...always, the Federal Reserve, which believes that it must operate in the deepest secrecy, refused to confirm that idea. Asked pointblank whether the board was in fact feeding a bit more lendable money into the nation's banking system, inscrutable Chairman Arthur Burns rumbled: "I couldn't answer that-I'm a central banker." But evidence of a slight loosening of Federal Reserve policy had already surfaced. Little more than a week ago, in an effort to calm jitters in the credit markets caused by the bankruptcy petition of W.T. Grant Co. (TIME...
There is, still, a dogmatism here: Boll's assumption that such persistent reporting will in a minute and factual way produce the truth. The gross destruction of the World War is enough, perhaps, to confirm as corollary the Au.'s more subtle conclusions that this war machine also injured, with the grindings of its internal gears, a sensitive and beautiful woman. Or maybe also his suggestion, that, because this woman was endowed sensually and spiritually with qualities that transcended the simple realism of, say, another citizen or soldier, she was thus somehow justified in her utter ignorance till early...
...large, friendly crowds at 22 political stops on a 118-mile motorcade-all the while wearing a protective vest under his shirt. It probably was a 4½-lb., ⅜-in.-thick model made of Kevlar, a synthetic material that resembles fiber-glass cloth. The White House refused to confirm or deny press reports of the vest, but it was plainly visible across Ford's back just above his shoulder blades. His shirt was stretched tautly across his chest and bunched beneath his tie; at times the President fingered his shirt collar with apparent discomfort, and despite the chilly...