Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prove for themselves that sound cannot travel in a vacuum...
...adult courts: "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone. Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court." A dissent last month from the 5-to-4 decision that labeled public drunkenness a crime may eventually prove to be the majority opinion. Criminal penalties," argued Fortas, "may not be inflicted upon a person for being in a condition he is powerless to change...
What effect it will have on the economy is less sure. At best, it will ease inflationary pressures. But there is also a danger that the combined restraint of higher taxes and reduced spending will prove too powerful a brake, throttling expansion rather than merely controlling...
...education, politics or sex, work or play. Yet amid the now commonplace advocacy of upheaval are quieter appeals to reason that suggest revolution is not all it is reputed to be, that continuity may be preferable to crisis, that peaceful accommodation with one's fellow man may prove to be more fruitful than clobbering him-or even calling him names...
...deal, involving at least $580 million in Control Data securities, must be approved by shareholders of both companies-and that could prove to be a major hurdle. The reason is that Loew's, apart from whatever additional stock it may pick up through its tender offer, is already Commercial Credit's biggest stockholder, having bought almost 10% of the company's shares on the open market during the past year. And Loew's President Laurence Tisch, assailing the proposed get-together with Control Data as a "shotgun wedding," was plainly in no mood to surrender...