Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate as quickly as possible. Administration emissaries fanned out to brief influential politicians, and Carter himself got on the phone to promote the pact. Yet winning approval by two-thirds of the Senate-where cries of "Giveaway!" are sure to echo and the filibuster remains a real threat-could prove a difficult, divisive and time-consuming task. Winning that approval before the end of the year is likely to prove an impossible...
...stock, why should he be allowed to borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose? It is clearly time for a new law that would shift the burden of proof, and forbid big banks to make personal loans to officers of cor respondent banks unless both parties can prove that the transaction is an "arm's length" deal...
...advances on innumerable technological fronts?last week's space shuttle test, for one example?it does not really have to prove its mettle by maintaining "in perpetuity" an achievement of the steam age. Moreover, in adjusting to a changing situation and sharing its accomplishments with the rest of the world, the nation demonstrates skills and ingenuity of a different but no less vital sort. In that sense, the Panama Canal will always be American...
...move is mainly a show of force by India's new rulers. They are eager to prove that they can enforce the 1973 Foreign Exchange Regulation Act better than Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, which was thrown out of office last March. The new mood is a far cry from the more tranquil days of 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of newly independent India, sipped Coke as the cornerstone was laid for an Indian Coke-bottling plant, or in the mid-'60s, when the Dalai Lama, in India as a refugee from the Communist takeover...
...depths our enemies do not hesitate to slither to to try to stop us, including criminal acts of kidnaping, involuntary incarceration, mental and physical torture and even murder!"* Despite resemblances to earlier letters, Moses David argues, rather convincingly, that details of the language and format in the resignation letter prove it to be a hoax...