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Word: confirms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three years. It was hard to consider Wade Lau as anything more than a mediocre ECAC goaltender. All the unknowing saw were statistics like 4.78 and 4.63 goals against averages and a save percentage that hovered in the mid-eighties, so there were no awards for Lau, nothing to confirm his standing as one of the top goalies in the region...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Wade Lau | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...DISPARITIES among the 13 Houses, chronicled in Dean Fox's recent statistical report to the Masters, should serve as much more than fodder for breakfast table conversation. They confirm what many have long suspected: that many of the widespread stereotypes of residents of various Houses are grounded in factual differences. The percentage of residents on a varsity team ranges from 45.7 per cent in Kirkland to 4.7 per cent at Adams; the percentage of Black residents goes from 17 per cent at Currier to 3 per cent at Eliot and Kirkland; and the percentage of students with B-plus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses of Ill-Dispute | 1/27/1982 | See Source »

...apple carts, more than anything else about the urban listlessness of Detroit, evoke the imagery of economic depression. They are a part of the visual heritage of the Great Depresssion that has survived into the 1980s. They confirm that a new depression is crushing industrial America and industrial workers. In Detroit, the depression stems from the collapse of the automotive industry, which has lost 10 per cent of its market to Japanese competitors over the last three years...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Reagan's Labor Pains | 1/22/1982 | See Source »

...Winter Park, Fla., it took Sandra Hinson only one quarter "to confirm what I'd known since high school phys.-ed.: yours truly is a total eye-hand klutz." TIME Contributor John Skow, who wrote the story, claims "no aptitude, but considerable attraction" toward the beeping machines. He found his skill grew roughly at the rate his money vanished. Skow also tested home game systems and found what any father could have predicted: his 15-year-old daughter wiped him out. Working with Skow was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who has been dueling with arcade machines for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 18, 1982 | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

Harvard head football coach Joe Restic refuses to confirm or deny a published report that he has been offered the job of offensive coordinator by the Los Angeles Rams...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Restic Not Talking About Rams Offer | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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