Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman in April. Incumbents have been reluctant to approve such a kitty: Why help challengers? But Congress is about to collect a pay raise and is caught up in an influence-buying scandal with South Korean lobbyists. So pressures to reform Capitol Hill's own campaign financing may prove too strong to resist. Besides, big money does not always guarantee success. Of the top five recipients of private money among Senate candidates, three were defeated -Hartke, Tunney and Green...
...first nine years after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, local stores, you name it. I walk into a store and apply for a charge account; I get back a notice that my credit has been refused because I have no credit history...
...Thursday, the seven-member board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association met with the newly-inaugurated heads of the Lampoon to try to thrash out a public Lampoon statement that would satisfy offended blacks and still prove stomachable to Lampoon editors...
Epps stressed that the issue would prove delicate because it involves the principle of academic freedom...
Specific allegations about patronage are numerous but almost impossible to prove. Danehy says Ralph engineered the appointment of his "right-hand man" as superintendent of buildings. McLaughlin calls that man "nothing but a political hack and Ralph's campaign fund-raiser." Yet one of Ralph's partisans in the courthouse claims the superintendent "put in more hours in this building than any department head ever has or ever will." Ralph refers to him as "one of the most decent and capable gentlemen I have ever met since being in government...