Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of the color of their skin. An intensive minority recruiting drive has upped the proportions and eased the pressure. "When my father went here," one Black cadet says, "the pressure on Blacks to perform was greater than anyone else. If you didn't make it, you were living proof that the old system was better. Now, things are different...
Sanders was the scene of the afternoon ceremonies, too--possible proof that relations between Harvard and Cambridge were somewhat warmer then. As Mayor James W. Hall said, "It is especially fitting that we meet here today, having for our host an institution which, since the beginning of its history, has been so largely identified with the civil, intellectual and riligious welfare of our land. It is always instructing and instructive to see tow old people together...
...shelved for the time being, he adds. More important than the renovations the Faculty commissions for its buildings, though, will be the efforts of their occupants in noticing energy inefficiencies and correcting them. Abernathy points to the short length of time necessary to carry out the energy study as proof that reducing energy consumption is not an unmanageable task. "There are a number of people around who believe conservation is torture," he says, adding. "It doesn't have...
...years of careful planning precipitated the smooth beginning, Giroux said. An endless round of meetings and reports prepared last winter and spring are proof of community involvement in the plan, he added...
...same segment. But the differences are much more important--the Klan member wants for himself; the revolutionary communist, however screwed up, wants for others. The Klan has a vision of the past, the RCP of the future. People can be excused for their fantasies about the future, for no proof exists that they are wrong. So scorn the Klan, hate the Klan, pray that they go away. But when you pass the RCP people in the Square, understand them, tell whoever you're with that their hearts are in the right place, give them a quarter for the goddamn newspaper...