Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heroism in Grenada of Sergeant Stephen Trujillo, an Army Ranger from Denver, "who reminds us what it means to be Americans." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, moderator of the Democratic response to Reagan, cited the death in Beirut of Marine Corporal Edward Gargano from Quincy, Mass., as tragic proof that the Administration's Lebanon policy is wrongheaded...
...represents a conclusive personal victory for Jobs in the battle of office politics. The final proof is that the company's Lisa and Mac divisions will soon merge, and he will take over as head of the combined group. But now the Master of Mac must wait and see whether the public approves his bold machine...
...surviving papers prove, the tremulous girl knew all too well the lessons of degradation and inhumanity. But if she was acquainted with the night, she refused to turn her back on the consolations of nature, learning and love. The proof resides in Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex, a group of stories, fables, essays and reminiscences that she kept in a private journal. Though some of these works were previously published in her native Dutch, they are making their first appearances in hard cover, sympathetically translated by Ralph Manheim and Michel...
...under water, photographs of their sons, daughters and husbands swinging on chains from their necks like good-luck charms. Sometimes the women would bear the photographs on placards; sometimes they would hold a snapshot delicately out in front of them between the index finger and the thumb, presenting unassailable proof to anyone who cared to look that the subject of the picture did, at one time, exist. Every Thursday the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo performed their half-hour ritual across the street from the presidential Pink House, and then dispersed for a week. But they would not go away...
...clients have actually gone to jail, because we pursue every single avenue." The most common strategies: attack the credibility and procedures of the police or their scientific evidence, especially the breath-testing equipment used to measure blood alcohol content. In most states today, a measurement of .10% is considered proof that a driver is drunk. Defense attorneys across the country have challenged the reliability of breath-analysis equipment, and they have had some success. Starting in 1982, several courts found that police radio equipment could at times affect the accuracy of some models of Smith & Wesson's Breathalyzer. That...