Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schwalbe said she was unable to confirm the Amherst report because she had not seen statistics from other colleges...
...enough to confirm...
...technique--and perhaps the moral of the story--is that the insiders who clearly did talk receive the kindest treatment. Again from the foreword: "If we obtained two versions [of anything], we resolved disagreements through re-interviewing. If this proved impossible, we left out any material we could not confirm." In effect, they have already made all the judgment about who was telling the truth and have thrown out whatever they couldn't get two people to tell them. I can imagine the following scenario: Fred Buzhardt, an insider's insider, hears that W&B are on the case...
...message of the first five primaries seems to confirm the liberals' plight. All but one of their candidates have dropped out. The survivor around whom they are gathering, Morris Udall, still has not won a primary. Even Udall has poured salt on their wounds: he has taken to dropping their label. Udall prefers to call himself a progressive, a description he says sounds less negative...
...heard a group of reporters discussing the bungled breakin. Ironically they were covering the actor's promo tour for The Candidate. They all thought Nixon had probably known about it and that no one?least of all their fellow newsmen?would ever pursue the matter far enough to confirm or deny their suspicions...