Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, the U.N. Security Council voted 15 to 0 last week to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa -the first time the U.N. has ever taken such action against a member nation. As U.N. resolutions go, this one seemed calculated to prove modestly effective. To be sure, it failed to create a defense crisis for South Africa, which is virtually self-sufficient in arms production. In fact, over the short run the U.N. vote may even have played into the hands of South African Prime Minister John Vorster, who is anxious to rack up a big majority...
...love you, Liza!" members of the opehing-night audience at The Act shouted, and that may just prove that love is blind. Liza Minnelli is a cult, and cults, like love, defy reason...
...poser and Barry Nelson never throws away a line, even the scrimpiest, that he hasn't impeccably polished. But the play goers are paying to see Liza, and at a rec ord Broadway top price of $25. Someone is gambling mightily that their love will not prove fickle...
...Koobi Fora to spend an exciting evening with his son, examining fossils late into the night by the harsh light of a gas lantern. That night Louis predicted that Richard would find evidence of three hominid species at Turkana. A few weeks later, he died, unaware that events would prove him right. Says Richard: "I think his sheer dogged persistence?and his follow-through on ideas to the point where they were proved either right or wrong?was his greatest gift. In many ways, his greatest achievement was his ability to stimulate others...
That definition makes dumping cases difficult to prove. The Treasury Department must determine production costs ?and Japanese steelmakers have refused to supply them. Dumping investigations also can take a year to 15 months to complete. Nonetheless, U.S. manufacturers are making a growing effort to push the Government to crack down on dumping...