Word: proof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Olsen said the committee hopes to use information gathered from the survey as proof that some of Harvard's policies should be changed...
...called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
...MOST RECENT proof of the incoherence of administration policy towards Mexico took place this Valentine's Day. At the opening ceremonies in Mexico City, when Carter remarked that he could not "imagine a more appropriate day" for Mexico and the United States to meet, he could not have realized the irony of his comment. For as he extended his hand, the Commerce Department, unknown to the President, turned what was proferred as a handshake into a slap in the face--on the same day, the Commerce Department announced its unilateral decision to close a big export promotion center in Mexico...
...such times the inner planet is higher in the sky, letting astronomers see it through less of the earth's atmosphere. Helium was found in the sun during an 1868 eclipse. And in 1919, British scientists measured the bending of starlight by solar gravity, thus providing dramatic proof of Einstein's general theory of relativity...
...refuses to board a plane. "Everybody has to worry about something," he muses. "Some people worry about sex. With me, it's jets." Which seems fair. After 200 books on every conceivable subject, it would be surprising to see Isaac Asimov up in the air about anything. As proof, an Asimov sampler...