Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Humorist Russell Baker observed that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove more painful than dollar losses...
...prepared to take risks and sometimes to fail, but stay on the lookout for opportunities to prove your managerial skills...
...pragmatic strategy: stress the savings in governmental expenditures that decriminalization provides, focusing on key legislators who have opposed the bill in the past. The nationally famous trial lawyer placed a priority on convincing opposition figures that support of HR-4914 would not bring defeat at re-election time. To prove his point, Oteri drew upon NORML monies to conduct a poll of Flaherty's own district in South Boston to gauge the extent of popular support for decriminalization in a reputedly conservative district. Harvard Business School students undertook the task of actually surveying these constituents and the 73 per cent...
...type (imitative of natural hormone cycles) birth control pills. In 1976 the agency took off the market Red Dye No. 2, the most widely used coloring in food and cosmetics. FDA officials conceded that there was no proof that the dye was unsafe but contended that manufacturers could not prove it was safe-even though the substance had been used for 100 years under the name of amaranth. The decision raised eyebrows but no great storm of disapproval, because substitutes were available. The response to the saccharin ban was different, since in 1969 the FDA banned cyclamates, the only other...
...states-Tennessee, Nebraska and Idaho-voted to rescind their support, and similar measures are awaiting action in six states. Legal experts disagree on whether the Congress or the courts will accept such rescissions. If they do, ERA would need ratification by at least six additional states, which would probably prove impossible...