Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees today are an inchoate, though highly volatile mass that represents no immediate threat to the government. But if they settle down and organize, they may prove to be a formidable danger to the moderates as well as to the Communists. Meanwhile, many wealthy and professionally skilled Angolans have settled in Spain, France and Brazil rather than stay in Portugal. "These people are a gold mine of talent," said a top-ranking foreign diplomat. "If Portugal doesn't have the foresight to tap their skills, but drives them away, only the dirt farmers will be left...
Either can pass to a host of accomplised receivers--Jim Curry, Tommy Winn, Bob McDermott and Mark Taylor. This should prove especially annoying to Brown's secondary, which in past weeks has been more susceptible to the pass than...
...vicissitudes of the Spanish economy may prove to be a catalyst for radical workers' actions after Franco dies. Unemployment is unofficially running at 4.5 per cent and would be far higher if the government had not this year increased spending and refused industries permission to lay off workers. Wage settlements, which are up by 25 per cent this year, are still ahead of 17 per cent annual inflation rate--but only because the Franco regime has attempted to buy off discontent at the cost of fanning inflation and discouraging private investment, which has fallen off dramatically over the past year...
PENN-COLUMBIA--The Lions prove that they are actually a football team and that the Cornell game was not a fluke. Upset in New York. Columbia 28, Penn...
...type of scholarship Weinstein is engaged in, the Meeropols' investigation of their parents' case, Alger Hiss's efforts to prove his innocence, all lead to broad philosophical questions concerning the nature of historical truths. It may well be that both the Rosenbergs and the FBI, both Hiss and Chambers, were lying. It is possible that no party to the cases will be able to maintain that the complete truth rests on its side. It is then that the area of judgmental truth will be entered. Did the Rosenbergs and the FBI have different reasons for lying? What are the distinctions...