Word: proof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week gifts would total "substantially more" than $1.6 million, beating out the current record set by this year's 25th reunion class at Yale. "It's always been a generous class," Abrams added, pointing to the records the class still holds for 15th and 20th reunion giving as proof...
...their care and came to what they felt were grim, self-evident conclusions. Then the argument shifted a bit to the amount of violence on TV and its cumulative effects on society. To both counts the TV networks reacted as they still do: Life is complex. There is no proof. It's a free country, and people get what they want, as the networks' brutal rating games demonstrate. Besides, haven't those worrywarts heard of such a thing as healthy dramatic catharsis...
...plot is raveled. It revolves around the U.S. Attorney General's office, which employs the Mafia to find a cool freelance hit man to abduct a Robert Vesco-like tycoon from his extradition-proof Caribbean hideaway and return him to face justice back home. This effort is complicated by many subplots, romantic and otherwise, all of them dismally predict able, all of them stretched to transparent thinness. James Coburn, Sophia Loren, OJ. Simpson and a quite decent group of character people are involved in this non sense. One pities the lot of them, but none more than Loren...
...mergers and takeovers would be prevented unless management could prove that joining together would improve competition or operating efficiency. That is something that businessmen say would be exceedingly difficult to show since the hoped-for benefits might not be expected to occur for years. If such proof were not possible, the deal could still go through if the acquiring company agreed to spin off a subsidiary, division or some other large asset so that the parent firm would be no larger than it was before the linkup. The bill is strongly opposed by the business community and is unlikely...
Many speakers also criticized the Kennedy-Metzenbaum bill for shifting the burden of proof. The U.S. Government would not have to prove that a proposed merger might hurt competition, but the company wanting to expand would have to prove that competition would actually increase. Economist MacAvoy suggested that this approach was little more than a power play to make it easier for the Government to prove its antitrust cases. But, he contended, "the burden of proof should rest with the Michael Pertschuks of this world." The FTC is already empowered to act as both the prosecutor and judge in antitrust...