Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last October, Beys, then council treasurer, wrote PBH a $3,000 check for use in their homeless program. As required by the council's by-laws, the check was signed by either the chair or vice-chair, neither of whom could confirm the signature yesterday...
Serbs often offer safe passage out of areas they are attacking, but Bosnian and U.N. officials regard the ploy as part of the Serb campaign to rid the area of non-Serbs. Serb officials seemed to confirm that with a statement that Muslims and Serbs "will not live together ever again." In spite of the U.N.'s reluctance to assist in the "cleansing," General Philippe Morillon, head of the peacekeeping force in Bosnia, went to Cerska on Friday to try, apparently unsuccessfully, to negotiate an evacuation...
...outgoing spy chief ROBERT GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...
Sadly, to borrow the words that once appeared on report cards, new studies confirm that Head Start "does not live up to potential." The well-known formula cited by Clinton ("One dollar spent now saves three later") reflects the success of one non-Head Start project at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor...
Because of their trouble getting to the "blast seat" in the dangerously crumbling underground garage, investigators could not even confirm to their complete satisfaction what had caused the explosion. But its size and intense heat suggested a bomb, as did traces of nitrate found at the edges of the blast crater. Until they could determine otherwise, informed experts assumed that hundreds of pounds of high explosives had been packed into a car or van that was left at a four-level underground parking garage. The garage is situated below the Trade Center plaza and near a station of the PATH...