Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote a column in our school paper which mentioned that McDermott was the second hardest tackler that I had seen play there. To my astonishment, he read the column and when he came up to school to visit warned me that after he got through at Harvard he would prove me wrong...
...construction projects. "Every large university needs a certain percentage of its work to go to minority contractors," he adds. He would like Harvard to let him bid on other projects so that he can recover some of the money he lost on the dining hall and so he can prove his record as one of the 100 best minority contractors in this section of the country. He adds that his reputation has already been adversely affected by the South House project, despite the fact that the company has earned a good reputation from the contracting work it has done over...
Jewett admits with a slightly nervous laugh that you could interpret this trend as a hidden quota system. "I cannot disprove it except by having a bad year," he says, "and I hope we'll never have to prove it that way." Still, some critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does...
...that time, Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said Harvard would increase its payments to Boston if Fair Share could prove Harvard takes more from the city than it gives back in services and payments...
Once the dust settles from NBC's upheavals, the 1978-79 season may prove to be the most competitive in years. ABC is returning with its winning (and largely Silverman-created) schedule, along with five new series. In Battlestar Galactica, premiering Sept. 17, it has the fall's only sure ratings blockbuster. An elaborate space fantasy starring Bonanza's Lome Greene, the show's special effects are the work of Star Wars Wizard John Dykstra. But CBS has its strongest lineup since Silverman left that network in 1975. It remains to be seen whether...