Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vest is not expected to provide a medicine kit of remedies for MIT's problems, but faculty members familiar with his career say his demonstrated skill as a listener will prove to be invaluable...
...landscape has been so transformed by ignorance, arrogance and greed that those who must prove their case are not those who call for forest protection, but those who call for business as usual," says Richard Brown of the National Wildlife Federation. Less than 10% of the ancient forest that once covered the Northwest remains. From Alaska to British Columbia to Oregon, forests that predate the 13 Colonies are being sacrificed for plywood, planks and pulp. The rapidity with which these primeval stands are being cut down has driven a handful of environmental extremists to sabotage timber-industry equipment, tie themselves...
Ducc's prison diagnostic-evaluation sheet notes that he suffers "low self- esteem." Ducc says that belonging to a gang is about obtaining "respect." Respect and disrespect make up the reigning ethos of the streets. Kids seek respect by joining a gang, then prove themselves by punishing someone outside the gang for an act of disrespect. In Los Angeles you "dis" a rival gang by uttering an irreverent nickname; "cheese toes" is a slang word for Crips and a sure way of provoking a gun battle...
Last week researchers at Abbott Laboratories near Chicago announced they had developed a new biochemical test that may prove to be highly reliable in detecting a collection of molecules, called Alzheimer's disease-associated proteins (ADAP), found in substantial quantities only in patients with the illness...
...refusing to teach, Bell does not just challenge Harvard to find a Black woman. He demands that Harvard find a qualified Black woman, and has literally put his career on the line to prove such scholars exist...