Word: attestations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those who are now jobless will attest, their superiors had told them that the company, in response to dire economic straits, could not afford to pay them anymore. Thus, the most reasonable solution to bring back these jobs that have been lost is to revitalize the economy. Many suggest that the government should introduce a new cash flow into the economy, either through tax rebates or through massive public projects, but there is a simpler way. Many of the United States’ largest employment industries often spend much of their money complying with very strict Environmental Protection Agency...
Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...
...Forte. Forte, who leads the league in scoring, was held to just 10 points in the two teams’ first meeting, due to Norman’s stifling defense. Forte remains one of the most explosive players in the league, as his 36-point performance at Cornell would attest, so keeping him under wraps will be the number one priority for the Crimson...
...Banfield can attest, the Harvard blue liners will have their hands full with the Big Green rush, which produces 5.08 goals per game, good for tops in the nation...
Posner argues that his background as a lawyer and an economist need not disqualify him from opining on the “strangelet” question. Fifty pages of footnotes attest to the fact that Posner is no scientific dilettante. But is he an alarmist...