Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept of what women's studies means, or of what could possibly be lacking in a college education which almost completely ignores both the role of women in the world and the basic fact that men and women experience the world in different ways, is more than enough proof that something is amiss here in the hallowed halls...
...last week in Brazil. The government of President Joao Baptista Figueiredo announced that it had seized four Libyan transport aircraft loaded with a reported 200 tons of illicit arms and explosives. The destination of the clandestine shipment: the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. For the U.S., the discovery constituted welcome proof that leftist Central American insurgencies are being abetted from outside the hemisphere. Nicaraguan Ambassador to Brazil Ernesto Gutierrez implausibly said that his government knew nothing about the contents of the airlift...
...Proof of Steve's popularity surfaced in Providence this February when more than 1500 students lined up in a driving blizzard to receive free ice cream at the grand opening of the branch there Owner Brian C. McLaughlin gave away 200 gallons of ice cream with mix-ins in less than eight hours...
...backlog of 25,000 other cases. The Government, which has deported 24,700 Salvadorans since 1980, argues that most Central American refugees are ineligible to be granted asylum under U.S. law because they are fleeing harsh economic conditions rather than political persecution. The INS declares that there is no proof that those deported from the U.S. have been tortured or executed, although Salvadorans in the U.S. insist that those who have been sent back have disappeared or been mistreated...
...rummage through a briefcase on the nearby bed, pick out a thick file, and sit down again. The files remained unopened on his lap; I sensed that Cardenal was using them as symbolic justification for the points he was trying to make. But even without concrete proof, the Nicaraguan's arguments against the ruling Sandinista junta were often convincing and disconcerting for a liberal listener...