Word: confirmable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens, New York. Told about the reports in his dressing room, the actor picked up the phone and, through his publicist, David Brokaw...
Moving into the center pavilion, Gates shows off what will be the library. A mammoth carved wooden dome hangs just above the floor, waiting to be raised into the cupola. (I wonder: Does this grand chamber dispel my fear that he will relegate print to museum status? Or inadvertently confirm it?) He has hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass...
...wonder workers are more worried now than they were just a few years ago. The new survey, the latest to confirm that the disposable worker phenomenon is a long-term shift in the way Americans live and work, found that 46 percent of workers think often about the possibility of being laid off, up from 31 percent four years ago. Some 53 percent worry about the future of their company, while 40 percent don't think their employer values committed, experienced workers. One of the few bright notes in the study: a growing number of workers (42 percent...
...almost 11 years after the explosion that killed all seven aboard. A beachcomber named Spider dragged both bits of wreckage out of the surf near Cocoa Beach, 20 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. By identifying the serial numbers on pieces of attached thermal tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets caused the explosion...
...choices tend to confirm the thing that has bedeviled Clinton's foreign policy all along: he has yet to define any firm concepts for U.S. global leadership, choosing instead to rely on the ad hoc reactions of the cozy circle of bright, competent but unthreatening advisers who have boosted his performance the past two years. "The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction," says Richard Haass, a former Bush adviser now at the Brookings Institution...