Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power plants is sulfur oxide, a key air pollutant that has been linked with respiratory ailments in man. After studying the SOL, problem, a panel of industrial engineers and chemists from the National Academy of Engineering of the National Research Council glumly reported: "Contrary to widely held opinions, commercially proven technology available for control of sulfur oxides from combustion processes does not exist." If no immediate action is taken, the engineers added, the amount of sulfur in the air will increase more than fourfold by the end of the century...
This much is definite. Proven. Beyond doubt...
Friedrich tells the old episodes in new detail and also offers some that are not widely known. A Curtis consultant suggests that the Post convert scripts of TV's Bonanza series into short stories because of their "proven popularity." To save on paper, the Post is shaved in 1966 by one-eighth or an inch along the top and bottom and one-sixteenth along the sides. Ackerman, faced with the possible loss of $400,000 in Ford Motor Co. advertising, suddenly tells the Ford representative: "You know, I really can't understand why you'd take...
five suspended requirements to withdraw until September 1971, to students "shown to be entering or to have been in the seminar room itself." None had prior records or were proven to have engaged in "additional unacceptable activity while in the room...
This is not the approach that those who run Harvard have adopted in opposing the war. Rather, their opposition has sprung largely from the proven ineffectiveness of military intervention in achieving America's basic strategy and the excessive material and political difficulties for the American government generated by the conflict. At a time when it appeared that armed escalation would he successful. Harvard's ROTC units provided a supply of junior officers with which to conduct the war: when escalation demonstrated itself insufficient to stem popular insurgency in Indochina, such agencies as the East Asian Research Center and the Center...