Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drastically underestimated the strength of the recovery, earning himself the nickname "Dr. Gloom." More recently Regan has been battling with Feldstein over the deficit. The CEA chairman argues that excessive deficits will drive interest rates high enough to choke off the boom. Regan insists that there is no hard proof of this. Even if the deficit persists, he argues, the White House can afford to wait until 1985 to reduce...
...most optimistic gloss on the letter's words came from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The Soviet message, he said, included an "expression in principle of a preparedness to reconsider and revise the one-sided breaking off' of the negotiations. As proof, Kohl cited the continuation last week in Geneva of U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which deal not with European-based weapons but with the intercontinental arsenals that the superpowers have trained on each other...
After that initial overture fell through because the police lacked proof that the captives were still alive, the cat-and-mouse game grew even more elaborate. One anonymous letter leaked the names of three likely suspects, which led the police to keep watch over a carpenters' yard in a bleak Amsterdam industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through...
...Secretary of State Alexander Haig felt it would be disastrous to "pull the plug on a promise that NATO made to itself." The new Administration was already suspect in Western Europe for its strident rhetoric toward the U.S.S.R. Cancellation of the December 1979 decision might be taken as proof of Reagan's antipathy to arms control and of his insensitivity to America's allies...
...Robner says she loved her murdered husband, but you know she is lying. The proof is in the love note you just intercepted. Ask her about the man who wrote it, and she says she never heard of him. Confront her with his letter, and she changes her tune: "You have certainly stooped to a new low, Inspector, opening other people's mail!" Then she spills her story...