Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Same Pressure. The main question, in fact, is whether the new war-powers law will prove to be any more effective than previous attempts to curb the military powers of what historians are coming to call the modern imperial presidency. In the Viet Nam War, Javits and others who opposed U.S. policy unhappily voted in favor of White House-sponsored appropriation bills and other practical measures that had the effect of continuing the fighting. They did so, Javits admits, because no patriotic American could in conscience vote to leave U.S. troops under fire without the weapons and supplies necessary...
...resolve of Congress to reassert itself in foreign affairs by passing the law-as well as the law itself -may well prove to be a post-Viet Nam watershed. Observed House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill: "If the President can deal with the Arabs, Israelis and the Soviet Union, he ought to be willing to deal with the Congress of the United States...
...billion and has wiped out the country's projected gross national product growth for the year. To help finance the war, the government has required everyone to buy government bonds in an amount equal to roughly 10% of taxable income. Most likely, that kind of forced saving will prove to be only the first notch of painful belt tightening. By last week most Israelis knew that it could be a long time before they would again be able to buy cars and TV sets or travel freely abroad...
Despite the setbacks, the students have not given up. Going by the biblical statement that the flood began "in the second month, the seventeenth day," the class at Willits High still has about three months to prove that you can build an ark in Mendocino County...
...operator feeds a short section of film from a specially designed cartridge into a slot. Then the machine takes over, developing the film and even winding it onto a take-up reel, ready for projection. Because the device can be operated by a low-paid inexperienced worker, it will prove cheaper than conventional equipment in the long run. Indeed, the machine could be the precursor of the long-sought device to process color slides quickly...