Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, attorneys and school finance experts are pursuing a common strategy for court suits now pending in about 30 states. Says Stephen Browning, a member of the committee: "We're going to have to prove conclusively in each state that unequal resources create unequal educational opportunities, which in turn lead to unequal achievement by the students...
Such a connection may prove difficult to demonstrate. A number of experts-including Sociologists James S. Coleman of Johns Hopkins and Christopher S. Jencks of Harvard-argue that more spending does little to improve a child's achievement in school, and that the school itself is less important in his development than the home...
...only that a witness could not be prosecuted on the basis of his own specific testimony or evidence developed as a result of it. Civil libertarians howled, but the Supreme Court last year upheld the Government's right to prosecute such a witness provided that the prosecution could prove that it was using evidence discovered without any help from the testimony that the witness had been forced to give...
...time, he was deeply involved with another woman, yet suddenly was "expected to prove that I was a man." That was only the first shock. The second was discovering that Destinn had a tattoo of a boa constrictor circling her leg from the ankle to the upper thigh. "I am afraid I was not at my best that night, but she seemed not to mind...
Especially troubling to the business community is the suspicion that the President, who came to power with a reputation as an effective manager, has bungled the affair so badly as to prove himself an incompetent executive. Many businessmen feel that he chose his key subordinates unwisely and gave them too much power. "The people around Nixon were goddam fools," a California retailer was overheard to mumble. The mistakes were compounded, businessmen think, by an administrative scheme that kept the President isolated and uninformed-something no corporate executive could afford...