Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...field. Businessmen argue forcefully that at a time when the U.S. faces increasing competition from government-backed rivals overseas, American corporations need size and financial muscle to survive and prosper. While AT&T does not face competition in the usual business sense, the trustbusters will be hard put to prove their case that surgery on the company would be in the national interest...
...ready in time for the President's State of the Union message in late January. Any package that lands on Ford's desk will be closely coordinated with the Administration's domestic policies and Secretary Kissinger's international initiatives. The result could at long last prove to be the coherent energy program that the U.S. so desperately needs...
...return passage, which our country will soon face-the return of breathing and consciousness, the transition from silence to free speech-will also prove a difficult and slow process, and just as painful because of the gulf of utter incomprehension that will suddenly yawn between fellow countrymen, even those of the same generation and same place of origin, even members of the same close circle...
Fencing Match. At its core is a mettlesome love story. Laden with debt and disowned by a mean father, Valentine (Joel Fabiani) is desperately attracted by a lovely charmer named Angelica, played by Glenn Close. His gallantry is matched by her guile. She tests and taunts him to prove the honesty of his love. He remains steadfast...
...though, on old-fashioned virtues that Mostert does not think sea commerce can do without: pride in skill and a sense of being personally accountable for whether things work properly or not, and if not, why. Learning how to foster such qualities in the automated future, Mostert suggests, may prove as crucial to survival as the fight for oil. ·Timothy Foote