Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always knew what I was doing was right, but I always felt like I was on the defensive--trying to prove to people that I really could handle Harvard and a child," Ocon says. "It was nice to get some support...
Despite all the rhetoric condemning abuse, says Nan, statistics like these prove that domestic violence is "institutionalized" in our society. It was not what she expected to find when she immigrated to America four years ago from Tianjin, China. The problems here, she says, are too reminiscent of how women are "suppressed" in China. And that is why she feels compelled to do something about...
Gore's awkwardness onstage was plain to see last week as he busied himself with Important Work to prove he was moving beyond the campaign-finance scandal. The week's events and ceremonies were related to some of his favorite subjects--education, the environment, Internet smut--but Gore's performance was frequently off-key. The swoosh of his basketball in the Woodrow Wilson Middle School gym may have been exhilarating, but it could not make up for what had come before: a listless, interminable session in an overheated school library during which Gore droned on and on, consulting index cards...
...motives. Is the company discouraging consumers so as to convince regulators that quotas should be abandoned? Why isn't the EV1 available in more states? Why is the car offered only for lease, with no purchase option? GM executives protest that if they'd set out to prove electric cars a failure, they would never have spent six years and half a billion dollars building a revolutionary car from the ground up. They could have settled for a "conversion," taking the frame of an existing model and stuffing it with electric components, much as Ford has done with its Ranger...
...rather soothing way to express these prices, given our association of "teen" with the familiar world of dirty sneakers and orthodonture. It's necessary now, though, to let you know that anyone laying down, say, $14.5 million in cash for an apartment in an A+ building has to prove to the building's board that he has a net worth at least 10 times that amount...