Word: provenance
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...willfully refused to prepare for the demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. Management at these companies went for the easy money by building large SUVs and pick-ups when fuel prices were low. That was hardly a good five-year plan as the results of the last several quarters have proven. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...headliner, Bruce Springsteen, while clearly past his prime, doesn’t have to rely just on old, familiar hits; he is still producing quality new material. His latest album, “Working on a Dream,” may not be his finest, but The Boss has proven, yet again, that at least this old-timer can still rock. “Working on a Dream,” like Springsteen’s other albums, features songs about the triumphs and downfalls of the low, the poor, the nobodies. Given the country’s current economic...
...been struggling to put the puck on net, but as of late they’ve been hot.”Turning on the offense will help the Crimson do something that most of Yale’s opponents have found difficult. Though Yale’s defensemen have proven adept at forming part of the offensive charge, Harvard aims to keep the puck at Yale’s end of the ice and force the Bulldogs defensive squad to focus on clearing the puck.“I think we’ll have success, because our forwards...
...drag her in front of a judge. More disturbing than this arrest is the ex post facto change in the charges brought against Valentine—somehow, a procedural violation (no headgear in the courtroom) became a real criminal charge (fighting with an officer). This charge was not only proven false by later investigation, but was totally unwarranted in the first place. Nor was Valentine’s sentence—a ten-day jail sentence and a mandate to remove her headscarf outside of the courtroom—appropriate. Asking a Muslim woman or an Orthodox Jewess to remove...
Like Nixon, Blagojevich specialized in collecting enemies only to find himself in need of some friends. He made the point repeatedly on Thursday that none of the charges against him have been proven in a legal sense - and that's true. Though U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been investigating him for some time, Blagojevich has yet to be indicted, much less convicted. (See pictures of TIME's Watergate covers...