Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the present law, two drivers involved in an auto accident must press claims for damages against each other's insurance companies, rather than their own. To collect any money, each party must prove in court the other's negligence and his own lack of negligence...
Simon aims to make Reston a commercial success; he wants to prove that New Towns area sound commercial investment. In the process, he will do more than make a profit. He will overcome the obstacles, philosophical and material, which currently baffle Reston's critics...
...town, Reston will have industry, jobs, and lower-income homes--again, if Simon can prove that it is a commercially sound procedure. If he succeeds, he will have taken a major step in ending the era of the commuter and the middle-class suburb...
...first few weeks, it seemed that the Assembly itself, rather than the government or the Viet Cong, would prove to be its own worst enemy. Most of the delegates were young (average age: 34), raw and rural, with nothing in their lifetime under the French or the Diem regime to prepare them for free debate or the subtleties of constitution making. Because they were all too representative-Buddhist, Catholic, Chinese, Montagnard, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai-fragmentism and special pleading became the order of the day. Among the first orders that went out were for selfish perks: drinking water on their...
...productions. It shares many of the common faults of House shows: the props are conspicuously modern, the written affidavits invariably blank sheets of typing paper; Reverend Hale enters the Paris house with an armload of books fresh from Widener Library with the little white stickers on the bindings to prove...