Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with plans to get Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approval for the project. MASCO needed this approval so it could take advantage of a state law which aids developers of "blighted" land in urban renewal areas. This law makes the developer eligible for tax-exempt building if the applicant can prove to the BRA board that the land is blighted and will be benefited by renewal. In return, the applicant has to pay some taxes to the city a percentage of the project's income...
...ALVAREZ had set out deliberately to prove the truism that good critics make bad novelists, he could not have devised a more convincing piece of evidence. When a critic turns to fiction writing in middle age, so some lack of burning inspiration may be inevitable, but this novel also shows an ignorance of the most basic tools of storytelling, not to mention an absence of the literary sensibility the author has demonstrated elsewhere. If Alvarez had turned his critical eye on his own work, this manuscript would never have seen the light...
Davis said yesterday, "It is an important job, there is a lot to be done and it gives me a sense of public purpose. It offers me the chance to prove my capabilities...
...known what light Nixon shed on any of these matters, there was, said one Watergate source, "a fifty-fifty chance" that the grand jury would hand up indictments relative to some of them before it disbands this week. But that need not happen for Nixon's testimony to prove useful. The special prosecutor's office is prepared to present evidence to future Washington grand juries in Watergate cases...
...anything, independence may prove to be even more traumatic in Mozambique's sister colony of Angola, which is due to be given its freedom in November. Reports from the Angolan capital of Luanda last week spoke of "relative calm"-meaning only scattered shooting in the city's muceques (slums) and perhaps a dozen deaths in the capital. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed in fighting since last January. In an effort to halt the bloodshed, Portuguese troops swept through the muceques and found an enormous hoard of arms, including mortars, machine guns, mines and homemade bombs...