Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percentage of women and minorities in many segments of the labor force. But the Administration now seems to believe that voluntary action by business will eliminate the discrimination that remains. If it carries through with its plans, the Reagan Administration will be putting on itself a heavier burden of proof than any that it lifts from the backs of employers...
...debunks any suggestions that blacks are genetically inferior. IQ scores for ethnic groups, he says, change over time. They reflect family background and cultural assimilation. As proof he cites a group of Jews tested during World War I. Many of them were first-generation immigrants from Russia and Poland, and they had "some of the lowest scores on mental tests of any of the numerous ethnic groups tested." Now their descendants rank among the highest...
...nurses are not familiar with a hospital's specific procedures, which can lead to confusion and dangerous mistakes. Georgia Sobiech, staff director at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., says flatly that registry nurses are often incompetent and that some agencies are no better than "pimps." As proof, she cites the case of a reporter from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner who posed as a nurse, passed a registry exam and was sent off to a job. Says Sobiech: "You have no way of evaluating registry nurses until they do something stupid-and then...
Streams and flood plains have been left alone. It also provides living proof that the races can live together. What is really important about Columbia is the marvelous advance in race relations...
Runkle also dated a couple of her clients. Her most serious friendship apparently had been with Johnny ("Fat Man") Campo, Pleasant Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...