Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Ronald Reagan's physicians first suspected that the former President's memory lapses were caused by Alzheimer's disease, they had no easy way to confirm the diagnosis. To determine whether Reagan, now 83, had the degenerative brain disease that affects perhaps 4 million Americans, the doctors gave him a complex series of physical and psychological exams -- mainly to rule out other possible causes of his symptoms. A year passed before he was told that he was indeed in the early stages of Alzheimer...
...Michael and 14-month-old Alexander ended in Union County, South Carolina, the place where the tragedy began. Authorities accused Smith of murdering the children after police found her car with the boys inside at the bottom of a local lake. The arrest shocked the community and appeared to confirm some of the worst infanticidal suspicions of early doubters of Smith's tale...
Harvard administrators can redeem themselves. A set of procedures detailing what processes to follow in such cases must be established. The recently passed ordinance gives Harvard an opportunity to confirm its commitment to safety by conducting a thorough investigation into the current security system provided for students at Harvard...
...refused to confirm or deny the existence of an inquiry earlier this week. Reeves has declined to discuss the issue further...
...policy is not to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation unless [the subjects] have been charged," McMullin said...