Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auxiliary loans, National Direct Student Loans, Pell Grants, supplemental grants, and work-study, the rules would affect about two million college and graduate students, according to New York Times estimates. Harvard distributes more than $2 million of such aid yearly. The new procedure, which simply requires that students provide proof of having registered to qualify for federal aid, has no appeals clause for philosophic opposition to the draft or registration. Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education, puts the argument for this omission just as simply...
...death penalty is the ultimate punishment for Charlie Brooks [Dec. 20]. It also grants equity to the victim. Brooks' execution is proof that in a civilized society, people cannot commit barbaric acts without paying the consequences...
Through no coincidence, the Soviet theme was also taken up by the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite. The paper lambasted the French media for their alleged anti-Soviet bias and declared that there were "no established facts" and only "inexistent proof [and] uncertain hypotheses" behind the reports of the Bulgarian-Soviet connection. The television networks were singled out for blame because, the Communist newspaper said, they were state-run and thus "public services." The failure to give equal play to Soviet denials of a role in the assassination attempt, L'Humanite piously said, was "serious, serious...
Garry Trudeau had no one to break up with. And for all the sentence he may have weathered, his characters were reassuringly age-proof, day after day. What could have cut them short...
...particular, investors saw the congressional lameduck session just ended as yet more proof that the Government remains hopelessly incapable of reducing the nation's ever swelling budget deficit. Last week alone the Treasury issued $26 billion of bills and notes to help feed the Government's craving for cash, and the needs will grow as the federal deficit heads to a record $165 billion this fiscal year. One Treasury aide describes the borrowing outlook for early 1983 this way: "You can think of it as $5 billion a week, $1 billion a day or $125 million an hour...