Word: proven
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Although it is proven the effects of heavy paraquat ingestion are severe, the effects of low concentrations of the chemical are unknown, Dr. David Kinlock, deputy commissioner of public health, said yesterday. "As it looks now," Kinlock added, "most marijuana users will not be exposed to heavy doses of paraquat...
Civil disobedience reflects concern that the present system of government and industry has proven incapable of dealing with the grave threats to our environment posed by advanced technologies. In this regard it is interesting to compare the anti-nuclear movement to the anti-war movement. The latter is often accused of having radicalized people without politicizing them. That is, people came to see the war as an isolated immoral act that demanded action, but when it was over, previous demonstrators felt comfortable that the system was "working" again...
...abstract expressionism. Today the role of landscape in art has shrunk. But the most ecstatic perceptions of experience and the most radical discoveries about the language of color and shape that these sublime artificers made were developed from their landscape motifs. Cézanne's was the Provençal countryside around Aix. Monet's was a garden at Giverny, about 40 miles outside Paris. It is one of the sacred sites of the modern movement...
...feeding is the best, or even the only way to provide a baby with a healthy diet. Admittedly, in rich countries, where facilities for appropriate preparation of formulas are usually available, and where many women work and are unable to afford the time for regular nursing, bottle feeding has proven to be an adequate substitute for breast milk. But in poor countries, where product misuse is likely (such as Chile, where a study of bottle feeding found an 80 percent contamination rate), use of formulas is clearly undersirable. Besides the nutritional dysfunctions, the drain on already struggling economies is staggering...
...what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation fails to take into account the moral value any divestiture would have. In the end, the Corporation has proven once again that Harvard is more of a business than a place of education and values...