Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...version of public discussion--asking people to "read my letters"--has proven unsatisfactory and evasive. If he is truly committed to promoting reasoned debate on the subject of divestiture, he now had a perfect opportunity to prove it by accepting Tsongas's challenge...
That the public wants Amtrak, was proven by several nationwide polls. It was also proven by the testimony at the hearings all over the country, on which were based the Interstate Commerce Commission's report. This report was favorable to Amtrak, but it was ignored by President Carter and his Department of Transportation...
...opening day, Talmadge led off by delivering an angrily worded statement. With the air of a wounded lion determined to fight off encircling vultures, Talmadge denounced Minchew as "a proven liar, cheat and embezzler." Minchew has admitted receiving money from the bank account, but claimed he was simply being reimbursed for money he spent-for the Senator. Talmadge said that if he had committed the offenses he was accused of, he would be dimwitted, and the Senator added: "Even my enemies don't claim that I'm that stupid...
...Prime Minister is enough of a realist to recognize that a Cabinet stacked with right-wingers would be as divisive for the country as it would be for her own broad-based party. For another, she needs and wants experienced lieutenants, which means re-enlisting a number of proven moderates from Edward Heath's 1970-74 administration...
...slightly, from 65% in 1973 to 58% now, as a result of increased output from Alaska, Mexico and the North Sea. But it would be foolhardy to expect that OPEC will any time soon lose its ability to control prices. Saudi Arabia alone has more than 25% of all proven world reserves; its daily output of 8.5 million bbl. is indispensable to Western Europe and Japan, and provides more than one-fifth of all U.S. crude imports...