Word: proved
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...arms limitation in the future must center on qualitative, more than quantitative, controls. Still, both sides must also seek to regulate the accuracy of their weapons--and that can only come from serious bargaining by both sides. Getting a handle on this issue will in the long run prove as important to "stability" and minimizing vulnerability as any unilateral moves...
Reardon should have been named athletic director last winter; instead he was appointed last week. That was just the beginning, thought, for while the ex-Crimson football manager no longer has search committees to deal with, dissatisfied athletes and meddling alumni can prove equally painful...
...task-master. Born in County Angus, Scotland, Charlie Thom emigrated to America in 1898 and became the professional at Shinnecock in 1906. He retired in 1961, but at age 96 Charlie Thom is still a fixture of Shinnecock Hills. A truly great player who never felt the need to prove his talents by playing on the tour, Thom is a throwback to the early Scotch golfing missionaries who devoted their lives to spreading the gospel of the game...
...treaty, he feels, is the key to establishing better relations with the South. As Costa Rican President Daniel Oduber told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "Carter has raised much hope. He has rediscovered what has been there all along: we like you norteamericanos. He is giving us a chance to prove that...
...week long, Carter tried to prove that the feeling was mutual. At receptions and state dinners, Scotch and champagne flowed freely, and there were enough petit fours and napoleons to pave the Inter-American Highway. Hamilton Jordan, the Carter troubleshooter charged with getting the treaty through the Senate, testified to the importance of the occasion by showing up in a jacket and tie at a reception following the treaty signing. U.S. Protocol Chief Evan Dobelle, who had to arrange more than a score of identical red-carpet receptions, was described by one sympathetic observer as "busier than a centipede...