Word: proving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon officials, after unveiling the cockpit tape, announced they were also releasing a still picture taken from the video tape to prove the Libyan MiG-23 Flogger jets were armed...
Although the statistics prove otherwise, many Harvard students still refuse to believe that athletes are as academically able as their non-athletic peers. As members of varsity teams and as representatives to Atheletic Director Reardon's Undergraduate Advisory Committee on Athletics, we repeatedly hear of instances in which Harvard's academic standards are not compromised for any applicant's athletic skills. The Admissions Committee strives for diversity in excellence in the candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity...
Dartmouth could prove to be even tougher this year. While it lost no key players to graduation, the squad must make do without 1987-88 Ivy Player of the Year Liz Walter, who is enrolled in a special academic program and is no longer on the team...
...main problem is that the modest electrical output of smaller units makes them less economical, at least initially. But proponents argue that inherently safe plants should prove more cost-effective in the long run. Not only would expensive safety systems no longer be needed, but the units could be built on an assembly line and put into operation one module at a time, enabling utility companies to match operating capacity with demand for power...
...grave danger in relying on adaptation alone: societies could end up waiting too long. Many of the global processes under way, like the wholesale destruction of species, are irreversible. Others, like global climate changes caused by man, are so profound that if allowed to progress too far, they could prove to be overwhelming. Simple prudence suggests that taking forceful preventive action now -- to save energy, to curb pollution, to slow population growth, to preserve the environment -- will give humanity a much better chance of adapting to whatever comes in the future...