Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FINDINGS of the Senate Committee are shocking, but for some, they merely confirm long-held suspicions about the intentions of the nation's chief law enforcement agency...
This friendly host then surprised his guests by disclosing that the U.S.S.R. had tested a neutron warhead "many years ago [but] never started production." U.S. experts agree that the Soviets have the ability to develop such a weapon, but there is no way to confirm tests because they would have been held underground. The Carter Administration is still considering whether the U.S. will produce neutron warheads; they could provide NATO with a devastating defense against Soviet tank attacks. It is perhaps for this reason that Moscow has been waging a worldwide propaganda campaign against U.S. development of the weapon. Brezhnev...
...ghetto, but the numbers runners do. And the need for success, almost palpable in affluent American society, redoubled by television, cannot be underestimated; lack of material success means lack of identity, and the precarious sense of self of poor people causes them to seek the excitement of crime to confirm their existence...
...Christina not write her book when her mother was alive to defend herself? "The story was not yet finished," she replies, somewhat disingenuously. "I had no idea how it would end." Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...
...Babson Institute. He continues--"people are all really different, and as a supervisor you have to learn how to deal with each one individually. You can't act the same way with everyone." It's not that the course taught him anything really new--it served basically to confirm many of the approaches he already used as a supervisor. But he says he did learn how better to motivate the officers he is in charge of, how better to organize his time, the importance of setting management objectives and accurate reports. Most important, Shannon says, "I better understand the difference...