Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of "religious persecution" by the Government and implied that Ryan was engaged in a "witch hunt." If this continued, he said, the temple might move to either of two countries that do not have "friendly relations" with the U.S. (presumably Russia and Cuba), and this would prove "most embarrassing" for the U.S. Lane asked that the trip be postponed until he was free to accompany Ryan. Ryan refused...
That is not always easy. Carter's cuts have already stirred some Cabinet-level grumbling. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall warned, though in a rather subdued fashion, that the reductions should not fall too heavily on job-creation programs. He said that the Administration will have "to prove that putting people on unemployment and welfare is less inflationary than giving them jobs." Patricia Harris, the outspoken Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, sent a sharply worded memo to OMB saying that she could not live with the proposed cuts in her department. The White House was especially irked when the memo...
...find themselves enmeshed in legal controversies with local truant officers. Laws on school attendance vary widely from state to state; some permit children to enroll in school as late as age eight (Arizona) and to leave as early as age 14 (Massachusetts). In addition, some parents are asked to prove they are qualified?in some cases, professionally certifiable as teachers?before a local judge or school board...
...commitment to the elimination of sexism in American thought, they argued, it had to be especially sensitive to this question; and this case certainly, was an example of gross insensitivity. Even worse, the argument went, the appearance of such an ad in The Crimson's advertising columns would prove us hypocrites: pious about condoning sexism in our editorials, we would nonetheless be proved not so pure when it came to taking money to condone such sins on the back page...
Becky Tung, who is ranked number one on the squad, said the team's real aim is to establish itself and to prove that last year's performance "wasn't just lucky...