Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of this desert of corporate Darwinism, there is one oasis: the story of Donald J. Bainton, Bainton stands as living proof that even in the aggressive ranks of business leaders, there is room for a cloudy-headed dreamer with no sense of vocational direction. Career Insights has included his story n a section called "Pathways in Organizations," in which seven executives describe the job opportunities in their "functions," which is businessman's cant for the divisions of a corporation...
Nobody needs such proof. Everyone is too well aware of the shakiness of existence without the evidence of yet another maniac. Still, we are perfectly able to live with such uncertainties. Indeed, there seems a near infinite capacity to do so, to go doggedly about our business in the presence of unknowns, including the unexpected menace and the undiscovered killer, just as long as civilization remains intact. In a sense, the certainty of our uncertainty creates our most durable bonds...
These were the words that just kept passing through my mind during the last Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming...
...Moiecular proof for translocation is an important find," said one professor of genetics at the Medical School who asked not to be identified. "But it's only the beginning of our understanding an extremely compiles mechanism...
...Camp David and that Israel and Egypt appreciated the invitation they had received from the U.S. As an alternative to this statement, he said, we could list the items on which there was agreement and those on which we could not agree, and issue these lists as proof of the progress we had made. He claimed that he sincerely wished he could sign my proposal, but the will of the Israeli people must be represented by him as their Prime Minister...