Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter certainly meets your criterion for the selection: dominating the news of the previous year. But I also believe he will prove to be one of the best Presidents ever elected. Under Carter's direction the U.S. may actually become the good guys of international politics instead of just claiming that position...
...ground that it should be returned to the lower court to apply that interpretation. Observes Georgetown Law Professor Jerome Shuman: "The new decision continues the shift from judging the effects of discrimination to assessing the intent of the zoning laws, and intent is far more difficult to prove." Adds the director of a fair-housing organization: "The decision raises the standards of proof much higher, maybe even impossibly high...
Leslie Kagan, a member of the Susan Saxe Defense Committee, denied Gaffney's claim yesterday. "There was no way it is a victory for the prosecution. Gaffney has yet to prove Susan Saxe guilty before a jury, or even guilty of anything. We understand he was afraid of another trial and therefore he initiated the plea bargaining," Kagan said...
...doubt remembering last years six-point loss to Dartmouth, the Radcliffe swimmers painted their nails Crimson to prove their solidarity. It seems the manicure was effective because the swimmers gave their best performance of the year, producing many season and individual bests...
...stopped, deflected, or even reversed, technology is irreversible. In recent years, Germany, Greece and some other countries have gone from democracy to dictatorship and back to democracy. But we cannot go back and forth be tween the kerosene lamp and the electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome as our technology proliferates and refines more and more unimagined, seemingly irrelevant wants. Driven by "needs" for the unnecessary, we remain impotent to conjure the needs away. Our Aladdin's lamp of technology makes myriad new genii appear, but cannot make them disappear. The automobile - despite...