Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high of 15.6 tons daily per man in 1969 to 10.7 tons today. One reason: the Government's tough safety rules, which have cut mining efficiency. The industry has also been plagued in the past two years by hundreds of wildcat strikes. Coal executives say the stoppages prove that United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is not as good a leader as he is a negotiator. In 1974 he won his union (current membership: 135,000) a healthy contract-the average wage is $50 a day before overtime-but he still cannot keep his men in line. Miller loyalists...
...Thomas Sowell's "Re-Assessment of Affirmative Action" appearing in this winter's Public Interest, is a short essay challenging the reasons for having affirmative action at all. The other, Affirmative Discrimination, by Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, is a major, full-length treatise designed to prove that the government is following an approach to public policy that is off-track, unnecessary, and counter to American values...
...government was systematically corroding and stifling our artistic life," Rostropovich said last year. "They wanted to prove that we did not exist. We were treated like lepers. We lost our identity. It was like looking into a mirror and not finding your reflection. In Russia," he said with characteristically vivid imagery, "if one blade of grass grows higher than another, they send in bulldozers to trim it down...
...record of previous publication failures convinced the administration to "expect undergraduate organizations to prove that they are conducting their financial affairs in a responsible manner," he said...
Lenin in Poland will undoubtedly prove to be more interesting than, say, Gidget in Poland, since Ilyich is always a pleasure to watch, but in this case the location is unworthy of him. The only time he could have been there is with the Red army invasion of 1920, so expect hidden justifications of post-1945 revolution at bayonet point...