Word: proved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casually mention that your Yale acceptance letter is crumpled up somewhere in the corner of your desk. Note that your mother begged you not to chose Yale over Harvard. And for the coup de grace, say you really should have chosen Yale, as safety schools often prove to be the best choice...
...Square. They know that although society has grown more tolerant of divergent life-styles, homosexuals still endure widespread hostility and a marked threat of AIDS and violence. Some young homosexuals go to enormous lengths to deny their sexuality. Teenage lesbians have been known to become pregnant in order to prove they are "normal...
...Center's buildings in the year 2000. If the holders execute that option, Mitsubishi Estate's ownership in the storied center will slip into minority status -- and any fears that the towering Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center will be replaced by a tiny bonsai plant in Mitsubishi Center will prove to have been misplaced...
...details of the discussion, however, will prove to be far less significant than the long-anticipated encounter between the two leaders. The eleven months that George Bush has required before he would come face-to-face with Mikhail Gorbachev is more time than it took for Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev to meet and overcome their mutual suspicion. The 1985 Geneva summit between Gorbachev and Reagan proved that a get-together need not end with formal agreements to produce important results. In their staterooms off Malta, the U.S. and Soviet Presidents may finally launch a partnership to deal with the difficult...
...Even if Santos is allowed to run, his name will not appear on the ballot. He must educate Brazilian voters to mark the box labeled Armando Correa, an evangelist who stepped aside for Santos as the candidate of the tiny Municipalist Party, which fields many evangelist candidates. That may prove a difficult lesson to teach in a country with a high degree of illiteracy...