Word: proving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor questioned the constitutionality of setting aside 30 percent of a city's contracts for minority contractors and decided that minority contractors must prove specific instances of past discrimination before they can constitutionally qualify for affirmative action...
...think everyone will be ready," junior John Murphy said. "Everyone really wants the Beanpot badly. It's a stepping stone to bigger things later in the season. A win could prove we deserve our ranking...
...decade. Last week, when Ted Bundy was finally strapped into Florida's electric chair and jolted with 2,000 volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Florida from 1973 to 1978, making Bundy one of the nation's most grotesquely prolific serial killers...
Even when tangible academic goals prove out of reach, however, the confidence and self-esteem gained from the classes often proves as rewarding as the classwork...
...Ginger, Lucy and Ricky, Mom and apple pie. The American empire was no longer propelled by imperial visionaries but rather by doubting, probing, experimenting empiricists. Assessing the message of The Graduate, film critic Stanley Kauffmann wrote, "Life, today, in our world, is not worth living unless one can prove it day by day, by values that ring true day by day." The Graduate was the top-grossing film...