Word: proven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court announced yesterday it will decide whether employees with no proven history of racial bias illegally discriminate against whites when giving preference to minority workers...
Indeed, ABC's strength is itself a source of strength. A new show, placed behind one of the network's many proven hits, has a far better chance of success than it would next to just about anything on CBS or NBC. "You can keep a fire going by putting a new log on top of one that is already burning," says one industry observer. "The new one will catch fire from...
Over the past 20 years scientists have conducted scans for extraterrestial life forms; however, no systematic methods of search have been developed. The most promising technique involves searching for radio signals from space, but scanning a wide range of radio bands while maintaining the necessary sensitivity has proven difficult...
...they put holes in the ground." Last week Jorge Diaz Serrano, head of Pemex, the government oil monopoly, announced the discovery of a new field that he says may contain up to 100 billion bbl.; that would be more than half as much as Saudi Arabia's proven reserves, as well as the biggest single accumulation of oil in the Western Hemisphere. Although Mexico's proven reserves are still formally pegged at a modest 20 billion bbl., officials have long said that the actual total is far higher...
...success, Wolfe turned his attention to public-health hazards that he felt were not being dealt with promptly or vigorously enough by federal agencies. His alarms, sometimes strident but usually accompanied by sound documentation, have resulted in a remarkable string of Government actions affecting the use of suspected or proven cancer-causing substances. Among them...