Word: proved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspicion is that the new James Bond will prove a little puritanical for the modern movie audience. In the last movie, the cause celebre was safe sex, and Bond made the unheard of move of ordering separate hotel rooms for himself and his lady friend...
Should both scholars join the Harvard faculty, "it will certainly add new blood," said Columbia University American historian Eric Foner, who two years ago turned down a Harvard tenure offer. "It will prove that the Harvard History Department is able to bring in good people in American history...
NATIONAL opinion polls consistently demonstrate that a majority of Americans are pro-choice; that is, they favor a legal right to abortion, perhaps with some restrictions. But the emotional rallies, the fights, the sharply divided groups from East to West prove that the issue was not adequately settled by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that first established a constitutional right to abortion...
...consumed in the U.S. could arrive by tanker, up from about 65% now. A serious, renewed campaign of energy conservation would help stem that tanker flow and pay other fringe benefits as well. But as long as foreign crude remains relatively cheap, that goal may prove as elusive as the puncture-proof oil tanker...
Which moves the debate to a local level. NOW has been actively campaigning for women's rights since its establishment in the early 1970s. Its campaigning alone may prove insufficient to prevent the Supreme Court from removing women's right to privacy. Now that we are so close--too close--to actually losing that right, the silent majority must raise its voice in protest to this turn of events...