Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that all the books tell you not to do," she says. "You're making loans to people who can't prove that they can pay them back." In Colombia she saw dozens of people, some of them illiterate, borrowing money, using it wisely to build their businesses and carefully paying it back. That example may help her turn a Third World neighborhood into a first-rate investment...
...groups were told of the studies and agreed that they were necessary, but other environmentalists angrily reject the need for the projects. Says Allen Smith, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society: "I don't understand why they have to go out and kill a bunch of wildlife to prove what everybody already knows -- that a bunch of wildlife was killed...
...tournament played for 12 hours one day and eight the next, mental, as well as physical determination could prove to be the difference...
Although she compared the task of analyzing Chinese politics to "reading tea leaves," Lord said she was confident that the current crackdown on dissent would not prove effective in the long...
...ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "If Saturn is successful, it will prove that it's possible to junk the old bureaucracies, change the corporate culture, change the adversarial relationship between union and management, and put it all back together right. If they succeed, it will be a big positive for America. If not, it will be a huge downer...