Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult position. It may have to court-martial him, not something it relishes doing to a highly decorated pilot. Or it may accept his resignation or place him on conscientious objector status. But either course might encourage other pilots to follow suit. Heck's case may also prove a puzzle to President Nixon. In addition to two presidential unit citations, Heck also holds a diploma from Nixon's own alma mater, Whittier College. Last week Heck told TIME's Peter Simms: "This is the first time in my life that I have been able to feel really...
...burden of employment. In view of the battle shaping up in-Congress over the Hartke-Burke bill -- which among other things, is designed to restrict foreign investments by corporations on the grounds that exporting capital creates unemployment in the U.S. -- such considerations as this may very well prove decisive in the long run. And if, in addition, the community agrees, as part of the original bargain, to forgo claims to future investments in the form of undistributed profits (and thus to the increased wages and productivity which such investments bring) then the corporations would look upon this plan...
...conclude, therefore, that for corporations willing to undertake to venture, the commercial advantage might prove very substantial indeed...
...Declared Mondale: "Whenever I am on the side of the Administration, I am surfeited with computer printouts that come within seconds to prove how right I am. But if I am opposed to the Administration, they always come late, prove the opposite point, or are on some other topic. He who controls the computers controls the Congress." Congress should be provided with a modern computer capability...
...Jews have devised a saying to prove just about anything, natural enough for a people whose recorded history stretches back more than 2,500 years. But they have also framed the best single-sentence putdown for anyone who cites one of them as an example to make his point: "'For instance' is not proof...