Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compared with the ones in your country. When you go to campaign in the small towns and isolated hamlets, you don't have to leave behind your last will and testament because that trip may be your last. Isn't the risk we run in this campaign proof of our democratic calling?" It is true. Asking for the vote, giving the vote, believing in the vote-all imply a serious risk. And hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans are ready to face it. A well-known Salvadoran intellectual, the poet David Escobar Galindo, said something that echoes...
When the New York Times won its landmark 1964 libel defense against a suit brought by Montgomery, Ala., City Commissioner L.B. Sullivan, journalists throughout the U.S. hailed the Supreme Court's ruling as a triumph for freedom of expression. The Justices in effect shifted the burden of proof from publishers to plaintiffs, and required that public officials must prove that the journalists either knew the disputed stories were false or acted in "reckless disregard" of the truth. For several years, it seemed all but impossible for a prominent person to bring a successful libel suit; journalists were emboldened...
...through most of her adoption hearing last week in the sun-washed Charleston, S.C., courtroom. Her would-be mother and father sat nervously alert. An attractive, wealthy couple from out of state, they eagerly testified about their four-acre country estate, swimming pool and well-protected play area as proof of their parental fitness. Yet it was Katrina, at 15 months all blond ringlets and neatly pressed ruffles, who spoke most eloquently on their behalf. Waking up in time to accompany the woman to the witness stand, Katrina clung hungrily to her side, cooing "Mama...
...home $450 a month, luxuries are even more unthinkable: a pair of jeans can fetch as much as $450, and those who are not lucky in the government lottery must part with $35,000 for a small family car. Meanwhile, senior clergymen are ferried around town in shiny bullet-proof Mercedes limousines, and Islamic Guards drive gleaming Toyota Landcruisers...
...districts. "We are bombarded daily with catalogues of software, letters and phone calls," says Torance Vandygriff, principal of the Preston Hollow Elementary School in North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate: one $300 Atari 800XL computer for every 3,125 boxes of Alpha-Bits...