Word: proved
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...prove it? The proof that something is not happening is always difficult. Without being naive, longtime watchers of Congress and the bureaucracy insist that what is really remarkable is the general absence of corruption. Most of the 100 U.S. Senators and 435 Congressmen live in modest circumstances, work hard, and earn every penny of their scarcely extravagant salaries. So do the vast majority of the unsung bureaucrats and local officials. In the past dozen years, only a handful of Senators and Congressmen have been accused-let alone convicted-of corruption or outright crimes. Given the parade of temptations, the siren...
...hired out of state, 2) library science programs are graduating disproportionately large numbers of blacks or 3) by some quirk, disproportionately large numbers of blacks have applied for positions at Harvard. Isn't it more reasonable to cite specific instances of discriminatory practice rather than using raw numbers to "prove" charges of discrimination? Jonathan B. Dubitzky...
...passing laws against interracial marriage and for sterilization of 10,000 of the "defective" in 24 states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could only be racist, Herrnstein is acting as a political organizer, not a scholar. SDS feels he should be responded to as such...
...increase. That is a pallid version of the system in effect during most of Phase II, when companies with sales of $100 million or more had to get explicit prior approval to make any price increases at all, and had to back their applications with detailed figures to prove that the boosts were forced by higher costs...
...Smith Court yesterday with an assortment of lobs, drop shots, chops and marshmallow drives. Riggs started the day by handing Court a bouquet of red roses to "soften her up," and finished things off by challenging other women players, especially Billie Jean King. Riggs's original challenge--designed to prove the superiority of male tennis players--was directed to King...