Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was no two ways about it. I was going to have to sacrifice three of the best years of my young life in order to attain what would prove to be, or so I at least hoped, a greater level of intellectual sophistication and professional maturity...
...profit corporation--that is, with a Board of Trustees openly responsible for overseeing the best interests of the corporation. Such boards are reasonably expected to set policy, to employ an Executive Director, and to raise money--in short, to be able to manage their own affairs. Should a board prove unable to do as much over a period of time, it is no longer what it purports to be. Presently the Brooks House Board is engaged in discussion of a capital campaign. It seems to me absolutely futile to raise further money without resolving basic structural inconsistencies. Who will...
...Broadway had come to naught. Then, in 1970, Applewhite got a break: lead baritone in the American opera The Ballad of Baby Doe. Detractors whispered that his voice was "not of national caliber," that he was "not musically a ball of fire." This was an opportunity for him to prove them wrong...
...Tennessee appellate court is considering whether to allow new ballistics tests that Pepper says will prove Ray's rifle was not the murder weapon. If they do, Ray might eventually get the real-life day in court he has been demanding for 29 years. And even if they don't, all the new wrinkles touted by Pepper make the King case sound more like a movie from Oliver Stone, who happens to be negotiating a deal with the King family associate who owns the rights to the story. It would make a heck of a movie, all right...
...Meantime ain't he cute, girls, all broody and snotty--just the thing to give your parents plenty of sleepless nights. What Inventing the Abbotts is aware of are all those lock-up-your-daughters movies of the 1950s, to which for some dotty reason it is eager to prove its superiority of understanding. But the goofy hysteria of something like A Summer Place was infinitely more entertaining and emotionally authentic than the distant smugness of this failed clone...