Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classical record industry can drive its customers berserk and eat up its own profits. The complete version of this score has been almost totally neglected since the LP's birth 25 years ago; now come two competing versions. Ah, free enterprise! Both sets manage to confirm that this is the finest evening-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky. Neither, as it happens, quite equals the poetry and passion of Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony in their old single LP of excerpts (RCA Victrola), but both are otherwise excellent. Maazel has an edge by virtue of his more incisive phrasing...
...Senators and Congressmen who know Jerry Ford well-and there are scores who do-never really questioned his integrity as a man or a politician when the hearings began to confirm his nomination as Vice President. But real doubts remained on both sides of Capitol Hill about Ford's independence of mind and, more important, his strength and vision as a leader if he should ever become President...
...committee hopes to vote this week to endorse Ford, allowing the Senate to confirm his nomination before the Thanksgiving recess. Over on the House side, the Judiciary Committee expects to start its hearings this week, hoping to make its recommendation in early December. There is not much doubt about the outcome. About the only critical word came from Texas Representative George Mahon, who observed that while Ford could hit a golf ball a country mile, his short game left something to be desired...
...faculty will react to the student plan is still not clear. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, is rumored to have formed a committee of professors to study the student grievances, but he could not be reached to confirm this...
...Harvard's team of experts sees first-hand and can confirm that the power plant will damage the crops in surrounding area, Harvard must present its findings to the Arkansas PSC. Proxy fights might be acceptable to socially-conscious but hopelessly idealistic liberals Harvard can stop the AP&L project only by convincing the licensing body that the plant will damage crops, water supplies, equipment, and the ecological balance of the area...