Word: proved
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...messages to Congress and in his budget, Jimmy Carter has just set forth his economic policy for 1978. He hopes that it will prove to the country that his grasp of fiscal reality is firmer than it sometimes appears. Says Senior Editor George Church, who wrote this week's cover story: "Carter's severe problem is that he has convinced most of the business community that he doesn't know what he's doing...
Said he: "It becomes the task of leaders to call forth the vast and restless energies of our people to build for the future." That is precisely the area in which the low-key Carter has yet to prove himself...
Privately, close aides of Sadat insisted that such negative statements were basically a tactical attempt designed to put pressure on Israel. They said Sadat remained hopeful that this week's meeting of Foreign Ministers in Jerusalem would prove more fruitful. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who was due to take part in the meeting, abruptly delayed his departure to Jerusalem by 24 hours while Egypt and Israel haggled over the agenda. Then, just as abruptly, Vance rescheduled his trip for Sunday night, reassured that progress could be made. State officials hinted that the postponement was intended...
This, Bertolucci seems to suggest, is the reason the class struggle remains unresolved: personal ties obscure class warfare, ideology notwithstanding; it is hard to kill people one has always known. As young men, De Niro and Depardieu fought each other to prove their courage; as old men, they will fight, but the struggle has become oddly depersonalized, the inevitable outcome of the existence of a class system...
...outcome on January 20, the case raises a number of disturbing questions. One important question concerns the structure of the trial itself. The judge instructed the lawyers and the jury that the trial was to have two parts, and in the first part the Indians would have to prove their legal status as a tribe. It is unclear why the judge felt it necessary to determine the legal status of Wamponoags at all, for the Massachusetts state government and the federal government have both implicitly recognized the Wamponoag's tribal status...