Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November, WUSA-TV said a local physician had reported to police that Barry had been treated for a drug overdose in 1983. The then-police chief later reported that investigators were unable to confirm that report...
RETURNING to Cambridge in January for Reading Period can truly broaden horizons, as any Harvard student will confirm. Education is all about broadening horizons, and of course Reading Period is all about education. This year was hard, though. The newspapers would not let us forget how narrow Harvard's horizons are. For the rest of Boston, Reading with a capital R is pronounced not "Reeding" but "Redding." As in Reading, Mass., where Charles and Carol Stuart owned their nice, comfortable suburban home...
...more spectacular. A plume of volcanic ash rose 40,000 ft. high, and lightning caused brilliant yellow and red flashes that illuminated the volcano against the night sky and revealed the area's coastline. Pilots reported seeing lava on the volcano's northwestern slope, although scientists were unable to confirm the sightings, saying the flow could have been a mixture of hot gas and ash. Though Redoubt had quieted down by week's end, experts cautioned that another violent outburst was possible as soon as sufficient energy has built up within the core...
...killed in the struggle that began with the slaughter in Timisoara; Western diplomats thought the death toll was far smaller -- perhaps thousands, but not tens of thousands. Bernard Kouchner, France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs, who visited Bucharest last week, said the Rumanian Ministry of Health could confirm only 746 deaths and some 1,800 wounded. An exact figure may never be learned...