Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help anybody. Nor is it going to help anybody to have management mad at us and not do a good job of managing. If either side decided to show that the Government couldn't do the job, it wouldn't be very hard for them to prove that...
Through villages like Luhanga, Nyerere hopes to prove that socialism can reorganize and modernize his country, which ranks among the world's 25 poorest. Tanzania's leaders have fashioned one of the world's most egalitarian societies. Thanks to sharply progressive taxes, the earnings ratio between the highest-and lowest-paid citizen is now 9 to 1, down dramatically from about 100 to 1 at the time of independence from Britain 16 years ago. A strict "leadership code" bars most civil servants from drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines...
...Student Employment Office instituted a new program encouraging alumni to send information on job openings. Rodgers said the response rate thus far has been low, adding that she feels alumni will prove to be a promising source of jobs in the future. The Student Employment Office is geared to finding summer and term-time jobs for students who need money just to stay in school. The listings and job books at the Office are available to all, however...
...flailing energies of brushwork and brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from the '40s and '50s: that these paintings do not al ways prove their necessity, and their joie de vivre comes close to rodomontade. But his defects are still those of a major artist, and against them must be set the fact, which every part of the show proclaims, of de Kooning's large and affirmative ambitions. Here entropy, the normal condition...
Zivkovic waxed philosophical after the meet: "It happens all the time. The director--he's a god. In all my years in fencing I have never seen a director who admitted a bad call. In court you have a chance to prove the offender's wrong, but here you're a loser from the start," Zivkovic said...