Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monetary measures have been exhausted, the balance can only be evened by cutting Government spending or raising taxes-fast. "The time for action is now," said John Langum, president of Chicago's Business Economics, Inc. "Instead, we have this happy talk that everything is fine." Samuelson, anxious to prove that "the new economics is an honest economics, a two-way street," urged that the existing 7% investment tax credit for business be dropped, corporate income taxes be raised from 48% to 50%, and individual income taxes be increased 5% across the board...
Since Cardin had named no Cabinet names, his accusations put all of Diefenbaker's former Ministers under suspicion of hanky-panky. After a tea party for parliamentary wives, former Tory Defense Minister Douglas Harkness stormed into the House to demand that Cardin prove his "statements, insinuations and allegations" or resign. "Let him go home to his wife and family and endure what we have to endure," chimed in another Tory, and only some fast political footwork headed off a no-confidence motion that might well have brought down Pearson's minority government on the spot...
From repairing damaged retinas in the human eye to burning precision holes in industrial diamonds, the list of uses for laser light has grown steadily since the fierce, pure beams were first projected less than ten years ago. A recent application may yet prove to be one of the most practical of all. With lasers (for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation") to help them take their pictures, Professor George Stroke and his associates at the University of Michigan are perfecting the techniques of holography-three-dimensional photography without the use of a lens...
...master cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...
...world series to prove that a great pitcher (Koufax) was better than a good groundskeeper," Veeck said...