Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most crucial aspect of the job according to official doctrine, was to keep the customer on the phone. And to aid in this pursuit, unnamed phone-solicitation experts had developed fool-proof scripts, which had an answer for everything...
...fibers and hairs, with the rest of the proof, were enough to remove any doubt from the minds of the eight blacks and four whites on the jury. Welcome says there will be an appeal based on the judge's decision to allow evidence to be submitted about other killings. "We were put in a position where we were charged with two crimes and had to defend against twelve," she said. In fact, Williams may have to put up a defense against the other murder charges, which the state says it may also prosecute. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported...
Impairment of Reproductive and Immune Systems. Regular marijuana use cuts down on the number and activity of sperm, but there is no proof of resulting loss of fertility. Studies on animals have shown a decrease in ovulation and female reproductive hormone levels. Marijuana is known to pass through the placenta, but the committee found "no evidence yet" of birth defects in human fetuses. Nor is there conclusive evidence that marijuana causes any chromosome damage or suppresses the body's ability to protect itself against infection...
There is nothing approaching proof, however, and the State Department is outraged by the film's thesis. It has taken the film seriously enough to issue an unusual three-page statement disputing I its major points. After an eight-year investigation, it said, "no light was shed upon the circumstances of [Horman's] death and little upon the circumstances of his disappearance...
...Margaret provided her public with a diverting image of spunky innocence. Later, for the press who would not directly attack you-know-who and Prince Philip, Margaret and her husband provided vicarious prey as "the two highest paid performing dwarves in Europe." Recently she has offered comforting proof of what every commoner suspects: royalty, in the words of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, is "duty without responsibility, pomp without power"-in brief, a gilded misery. With such a history of service, Princess Margaret remains, at 51, one of the European Community's best bargains. Pity the same cannot...