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CINCINNATI REDS--Everything came together for the Reds in '79, and though they're strong they are just not that talented. Unproven Ron Oester must take over for the departed Joe Morgan at second, and the fourth starter they amazingly did without last year still isn't there. They'll be good, L.A. better...
...story mean? Has Nevin been guilty of some other funny business that has not yet come to light, or has he simply not done well enough, or what? A flabby and unspecific accusation is anonymously made. There it lies on a page of the New York Times-unfair, unchallengeable, unproven...
Curran's words came as good news for Jimmy Carter, long bedeviled by unproven accusations of financial misdealing and even coverup. The disclosures of banking shenanigans that forced Bert Lance's resignation as Director of the Office of Management and Budget two years ago and finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last...
...book's main flaw is that it gives up too quickly on the existing fuels, while placing too much faith on the unproven performance of solar and conservation. Both of those deserve to be encouraged, but so do existing and future fuels. Oil can be stretched by technological ingenuity, and the potential for developing the nation's shale resources is vast...
...race was even a bigger test for his unproven jockey, 19-year-old Ronnie Franklin. He came to Churchill Downs a vulnerable boy. He rode past the finish line a triumphant young man, his fist stabbed aloft in celebration...