Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current period of crisis could still prove to be Iran's Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...surrounded by rich red Persian carpets in his Tehran living room, which provided a sharp contrast to his severe black robe and turban, "one side is shooting and the other is screaming. We must find a way to create a cease-fire to give the Shah a chance to prove what he is promising." In the long run, Hejazi believes, the Shah might stay on as a constitutional ruler. "But what we have in mind is an Islamic democratic government," he continued. "The mullahs would not actually serve in the government, but when the people ask for recommendations, we would...
...decade before 1977, 12% of national organizations met or scheduled future meetings outside the U.S. That percentage has slipped slightly because of section 602 of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Americans can now deduct expenses for only two foreign meetings a year, and then only if they can prove that they spent at least six hours a day in working sessions. The American Psychiatric Association, which met in Toronto last May, issued each delegate IBM cards to be filled out after each session, dropped in a box, certified by an A.P.A. official and mailed back to the delegate...
...Naked Truth. "Backstage with Esquire" is one of those columns about the magazine's contributors that seek to prove what trendy spotters its trend spotters are. Esquire carries the practice too far in its current issue, in trumpeting its cover story, "The Year of the Lusty Woman-It's All Right to Be a Sex Object Again." As whomped-up pieces go, it's relatively modest, confining its thesis only to a year, not to a decade, as in Tom Wolfe's overhyped Me Decade. The author is described as Judy Klemesrud, "an avowed feminist...
...some issues the ACSR has regressed, when compared to the position it took last year. With regard to corporations, last year's ACSR decided that a company had to prove why it should stay in South Africa. Few of the petitioned companies provided the information Harvard requested. Instead of taking action against so many companies, the trend within the ACSR has been to justify their continued presence. For instance, even though IBM distorted its employment data, failed to provide important information, and attempts to sell computers to the South African Department of Defense, the feeling was that we not take...