Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, he has demonstrated several of the necessary qualities: a huge supply of personal grit; the nerve to innovate, to take up causes even though the political deck seems stacked against him. He has a special kind of resilience, and a blend of stubbornness and flexibility. He must still prove that he has enough leadership talent to meld these qualities effectively and to persuade the nation that he can perform the missions he defines...
...that Teng and his aides would go on at length about the Soviets' "hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
American ineptness, the Shah also complains, applies not only to Iran but to the entire Middle East. In one conversation with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Aswan, the Shah spread out a series of maps to prove that "the Americans do not grasp the dimension of Soviet moves throughout the area." Later, addressing a joint session of the Egyptian and Sudanese parliaments in Khartoum, Sadat inserted a sword-rattling reference to Soviet "conspiracies in the dark" around the Horn of Africa. Aides said that Sadat had been prompted by the Shah's remarks...
...Morgan now trying to prove that a big corporation like Sears, Roebuck is being discriminated against in a matter involving Government rules designed to aid blacks and women? Morgan, now 48 and a prospering Washington lawyer, sees no conflict: "There's nothing in the Constitution that says anybody isn't entitled to a defense against discrimination, and in that sense there's no difference between cases involving 'Bull' Connor and blacks, and the EEOC and Sears...
...given jurisdiction over trucking by Congress in 1935. During the next four decades the ice proceeded to put trucking into the same straitjacket that it had fashioned for railroads. Truck routes were spelled out in minute detail New lines were permitted to enter interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average...