Word: proving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...capitalize on any pro-Anglophone or pro-West articles in the constitution; other provinces could rail against concessions to Quebec. The possibility of a wealthy province like Alberta withdrawing from a revised federation is greater then many think. Variations on Levesque's "sovereignty-association" formula for secession may prove the wave of the future...
...This team had a lot to prove today,' Coach Doug Tashian said yesterday after his freshman soccer team used a new field alignment and a hat trick by Morgan Belford to trounce the Naval Prep Rams of Newport...
...Pistols have a double autopsy in D.O.A.--the Last Tour in America (which, appropriately, failed to arrive in time for a Cannes screening), sub-titled, in mock self-denunciation, The Great Rock-and-Roll Swindle. The latter goes through agonized, pornographic, animated, insistent, transcontinental, and terminal lengths to prove that the Sex Pistols were nothing more than a "Cash from Chaos" scheme of their kilted manager Malcolm McLaren. It is not only fascinating, but convincing. Like the film's beleaguered production, its distribution is currently haltered, but you'll probably get a chance to see it someday. It's slick...
...economy. Says Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University: "None of this deals with the underlying problems that have created the steel industry's competitive problems. It's like handing a faulty parachute to a man who has fallen out of an airplane." Big Steel will now have to prove that a little bit of Government will help it land safely...
FACULTY members and administrators regularly cite that reason to explain why Harvard's associate professors in the social sciences and humanities almost never receive promotions to tenured positions. Harvard demands proven excellence in its scholars; excellence takes a long time to prove; as a result, young scholars (in their 30s) rarely have had sufficient time to demonstrate the outstanding qualities that Harvard seeks. Science departments can more easily tenure young academics, the reasoning goes, because their rising stars usually make names for themselves early in their careers. In essence, the tenure system here has been a non-risk business...