Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dartmouth, read by most students and many alumni. The Dartmouth (an exceptionally fine student newspaper, by the way) is the oldest college newspaper in America, yet after only two years of publication, many people associate instead the Review with Dartmouth. This year the Review is being copied--some proof of its success--by a liberal paper called The Harbinger (the title is taken from Milton's line. "The bright morning star day's harbinger"). It addresses primarily those issues on which it feels its positions threatened by The Dartmouth Review--affirmative action, for instance. (A recent article on the subject...
...Wall Street investors, of course, the easing interest rates were visible proof that there had been a shift in the policy adopted by Volcker three years ago this month. At the time, the Fed chairman had declared that he would henceforth place less importance on regulating the level of interest rates in the economy and attempt more directly to control the growth in money. He argued that such a program was essential for bringing down the runaway inflation that was destroying the value of the dollar abroad and creating chaos in the U.S. economy...
...certain enemies, that power being a testament to their heroes' own. Milton gave Satan the height of a colossus in order to emphasize the magnificence of his opponent. Similarly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes near quavering when Professor Moriarty first filled his doorway: "My nerves are fairly proof, Watson, but I must confess to a start when I saw the very man who had been so much in my thoughts standing there on my threshold. His appearance was quite familiar to me. He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve...
Carbone also charges that Harshbarger is untrustworthy. As proof, he notes that when Harshbarger joined the State Ethics Commission shortly after losing the 1978 election he signed a letter promising that he would not run for public office for at least two years after leaving the organization Harshbarger started his bid for the DA's office a little more than a year after leaving the commission...
...that we can blame him for trying While Charles and Diana reinvented parenthood to the delight of millions back home, the middle scion of the House of Windsor was shivering in the Falklands, living proof (supposedly) that royalty really can be useful in a pinch. The local tabloids weren't being particularly attentive either. Although the British turned out in the thousands to welcome home the Carrier Invincible (Andrew's station), the press has lavished considerably more attention on the newest member of the royal family, little William. And the handsome Andrew, who enjoys dropping in unexpectedly at racy London...