Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study comes four months after Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said he would not release figures concerning race or concentration until the houses became fully random in the fall of 1998, saying that to do so would simply confirm stereotypes...
Lewis refused to confirm or deny the figures provided by the students...
DIED. TOM MEES, 46, ESPN sportscaster; by accidental drowning; in Southington, Connecticut. Although police were unable to confirm it, initial reports were that Mees jumped into a neighbor's pool to rescue his four-year-old daughter. His wife told police that Mees could not swim...
...that evidence stands up to the intense scientific scrutiny that is certain to follow, it will confirm for the first time that life is not unique to Earth. That confirmation, in turn, would have staggering philosophical and religious repercussions. It would undermine any remaining vestiges of geocentrism--the idea that man and his planet are the center of the universe--and strongly support the growing conviction that life, possibly even intelligent life, is commonplace throughout the cosmos...
...four-year American aide effort and it was designed to help the European economy in reconstruction of industry and equipment and trade," Maier said. "It helped confirm the recovery path of the European economies...