Word: proven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what of the future of the disciplinary process? Some would now argue that because the Faculty has proven itself temporarily intractable, students should extend the olive branch. If the Faculty will not accept reforms, so the argument runs, let us at least settle for what we can get--limited student participation on the CRR, for example. Although perhaps well-intended, this view is hopelessly cautious: it asks accession to an unjust situation merely because the CRR seems to have staying power...
...there are enough negative ones turning in the minds of Cambridge kids, parents, current and former staff, (as well as private and public agency personnel), to offset the forces he can muster--at least in number and significance, if not in political power and prestige. Until I'm proven wrong, I'll have to go with the assessment of Sister Mary Griffin of Croagh Patrick's, a well-known community worker...
Having previously extended the promise of flexible "general revenue sharing" funds to meet "pressing local priorities," the President has now dismantled any rational federal approach to urban problems, and has beat a hasty retreat from substantial funding of legitimate and proven federal programs. The "New Federalism" emerges as a shell game of enormous proportions for the cities of this nation...as essentially a bureaucratic hocus-pocus in which poor people, blacks, the elderly, and others who seek hope and opportunity in our central cities will be forced to play the role...
...that his opponents have dubbed him "the Computer." In the past two years he has won over $40,000 in tournament prizes-and far more in private games. The intrusion of these professional players into what before Obolensky's promotion was strictly a genteel, upper-crust diversion has proven upsetting to some members of the old-school backgammon establishment. "Gammon is supposed to be fun," says Lewis Deyong, a London businessman who is one of the world's top-ranked players. "But with all these bridge types in the game it has become kind...
...Soon after the old ICC-which still exists, in vestigial form-was created by the Geneva agreements in 1954, it settled down into a routine of quarrelsome impotence. Lacking any mutually acceptable alternative, Washington and Hanoi seemed determined to try again with a peace-keeping mechanism that has a proven history of failure...