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Word: proven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENSIBLE WAY to encourage conservation is to attack the causes of high consumption: for instance, uninsulated homes and offices, huge investments in highway systems, and utility rate structures that reward large energy consumers. Higher prices have proven themselves an ineffective and costly method of forcing conservation...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: It Won't Work | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

SAFER: There are some crude shortages, but there is no crisis of physical supply. In the longer run, there is no shortage in terms of proven reserves or potentially discoverable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Oil Crisis: True or False? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...current Mood on Campus isn't total apathy. That was proven by the march and midnight rally of 3500 undergraduates last spring to protest Harvard's holdings in corporations doing business in racist South Africa. But when the Harvard Corporation budges only a little, students aren't willing to take the step to violence, to physical expulsion of deans or Corporation officials. Brandeis had a building takeover this spring; Harvard probably won't, even though student demands on South Africa aren't being...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...even though a majority of students support divestiture, and even if similar support were shown for the Afro-American Studies department, the effect of such support thus far has proven negligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support the Boycott | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Upon s-crew-tiny, however, the Crimson has already proven itself stronger this year than last, thanks to the return appearance of nine lettermen...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: S-crew-y | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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