Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less inflammatory public stand as they try to deal with intractable urban crime. Ed Davis' gunsmoke rhetoric revives memories of Birmingham's Bull Connor and his L.A. predecessor Bill Parker, who once said that as far as he was concerned any suspect picked up was guilty until proven innocent...
...wells were drilled, 22% more than during the same quarter in 1974; yet production has shown only a minuscule rise. Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the drain on total proven reserves caused by pumping from old fields (see chart...
...declaration also cites the continuing lack of a proven method for the ultimate disposal of radioactive waste as basis for recommending that plant construction be curtailed...
...also wish to make a down payment on Waterloo Bridge. As this grab bag of 484 snippets of British literary gossip demonstrates, when the unvarnished truth is lost a lacquered fabrication will do handsomely. Editor Sutherland, a professor at the University of London, may claim to have weeded out proven forgeries and falsehoods. But he readily admits to choosing (when more than one exists) the stylish version of each story, even though "it may have no apparent authority." And why not? As a class, authors may have no more spontaneous wit than plumbers or bank presidents. What they do have...
Described rather prosaically in the press brochures as ASTP (for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project), the great U.S.-Soviet appointment in space is a considerable undertaking. If it succeeds, it will be the first international docking in space. Winle the mission involves no skills that are not already witinn the proven capability of both sides, it is no small technical and managerial feat to link up two spacecraft that are of different design and have been launched from pads 6,500 miles apart, and briefly bridge-for four days of pursuit, docking and undocking-two radically different technologies, languages and social...