Word: attestations
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...unwavering media presence has prompted Moose - and the country at large - to ask some tough questions about the role of the press in an investigation like this. Do the media hinder police efforts to locate a perpetrator, as Moose seems to believe? Or, as others attest, can regular media reports actually help flush out a criminal...
...Woof' for the same price." "But," the dog replied, "that would make no sense at all." Before you say, "Did you hear the one about ... " please stop. Jokes are no laughing matter. Research often has unexpected side effects, as Dr. Wiseman and his colleagues at the Laugh Lab can attest. They seem to have lost their senses of humor. After hearing thousands of jokes, nothing seems funny to them anymore. "There's a massive number of variants of jokes," Wiseman says. "But I've heard the basic structure of pretty much every single one." Oh, he still is capable...
...study of Hebrew. It was then that he discovered that, in addition to the customary dates and names, many stones carried colorful eulogies detailing the life and times of the deceased. One of his favorites: "Don't ask the stone about the man buried underneath. It won't attest to his fairness. Go back among the living and hear them praise him. It is in their mouths where his memory survives. It is in their hearts where his tombstone is sculpted." Though historians and genealogists will doubtless be among the chief benefactors of his work, Haidler...
...left but the floors and the girders holding them up,” Lewis wroten in an e-mail. “It really is an astonishing achievement, as anyone who has even tried to get a contractor to put in a kitchen in a three-month period could attest...
...students of recent Swiss history can attest, international public pressure?especially when it relates to moral issues?can be highly effective in lifting banking secrecy. A long-standing tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, secrecy was codified into Swiss law in 1934, just as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany, Stalin was purging his opponents in the Soviet Union and a clenched fistful of dictators were strutting around other European countries. By law, bankers who breach client confidentiality today face up to six months in jail and a fine...