Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Magruder had testified that he had passed along wiretapping plans and transcripts of some of the illegal interceptions to Strachan on the assumption they would go to Haldeman, this destruction of records seems to confirm that they had reached Haldeman...
...that will open in 1975. By almost any measure, he seemed a cinch for re-election to a second term this year. ¶Then things began to come apart. Legislators overwhelmingly rejected Cahill's coveted tax-reform package -partly because it included an income tax-and refused to confirm his able pro-busing commissioner of education, Carl L. Marburger, for another term. Worst of all, one after another of the men in his administration were implicated in New Jersey's multilayers of political corruption being exposed by U.S. Attorney Herbert J. Stern...
...fact, the narrow definition of the ACSR's role and President Bok's reluctance to meet with concerned students on investment issues after the ACSR's inception confirm original student suspicions: The committee was intended chiefly as a means of defusing protest without effectively bringing outside input to bear on Harvard's investment rationale. The ACSR's abstention on a proxy resolution concerning Exxon's proposed role in Angola especially demonstrated its ineffectiveness for thoroughly considering the moral and political questions surrounding socially responsible investment...
...Conrad was able to confirm what the telemetry had suggested. But after surveying the jammed solar panel and the remnants of the meteoroid shield, the skipper was reassured. "I think we can take care of it," he told relieved flight controllers in Houston. Several hours later, it appeared that NASA'S ingenious salvage operation-and indeed the entire $2.5 billion Skylab mission-might end in failure...
...details of the planned wedding-a quiet family ceremony in the vicinity of New York City-were kept a closely guarded secret. No one could confirm whether, in order to marry, either or both had sought release from their religious communities-hers the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, his the Society of St. Joseph...