Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the attraction? Most jumpers tell you they made the first leap to see what it was like or to prove something to themselves, to overcome that perfectly sensible fear of diving from an airplane into a void above the hard ground. If they stay with it, and perhaps only 10% do after the first scary jump or two, they develop what Kim Adams, 31, a graduate student in anthropology at Rutgers, calls "parachuting personalities, incredibly independent, uninhibited." Sky diving becomes a way of life, infinitely challenging, indescribably energizing...
...surge may prove to be only statistical. Productivity figures, Stokes concedes, "bounce around a lot." But even if the figures swing down again, U.S. industry could brandish a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the relative competitiveness of 24 major industrial countries. It found that, largely as a consequence of the dollar's drop and rising world prices, the U.S. now enjoys the lowest production costs and highest profit margins of all the 24. Steeply rising U.S. export and import prices relative to all other OECD countries, including Japan and West Germany, provided...
...last, my friends, we have a battle. However, if party ties in the county prove too strong, it will be no battle...
Droney's illness has not abated, and in fact, reports are that his condition has worsened to the point where he is now hospitalized. Should the condition prove fatal, Droney would still win his election unopposed and a successor would be appointed by the governor...
...wages just to keep up. Robert Strauss, who was Carter's anti-inflation czar until last week, strong-armed coal mine operators last March to accept a highly inflationary contract (39% increases over three years). Carter might have recognized what would happen: every other union leader, just to prove his manhood and keep his job, would strive to equal or top that figure. Blumenthal, Strauss and Carter himself repeatedly, if sometimes vainly, cajoled the Federal Reserve to keep credit easy and hold down interest rates. The President might have known that bankers and businessmen, many of whom considered money...