Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team player that he has tiptoed around the appointments process, to the dismay of his longtime supporters. Although Bush last week clumsily tried to deny that he once called Reaganomics "voodoo economics," the fact that he made the statement in 1980 is viewed by the right as proof that the Vice President is not a true believer. However, the fact that he tried to deny saying it may be even more interesting; it is an indication of the lengths to which Bush will go to show his loyalty to Reagan...
...bottle suggest that the drink might be made in the bogs by leprechauns, Baileys is the brainchild of chemists at Gilbeys. The developers were looking for an alcoholic drink "for people who don't like to get sloshed," recalls MacCarthy-Morrogh. The alcohol content of Baileys is 34 proof, or less than half that of many traditional liqueurs. The other goal was to create a product entirely from Irish ingredients that could qualify for the generous tax breaks the government offers to exporters. After testing dozens of potential beverages, including some strange-tasting green-colored brews and an Irish...
...gutsy and energetic who read on are given Witnesses and Proof, a litany of the most pitiful cases the faith-heater has cured. One witness it seems, was constantly passed over for membership in an Exclusive Social Club. After just weeks of training under Molloy's program, which seemed to center chiefly on looking, "haughty and distant," in front of a mirror several hours a day, the young man achieves what Molloy calls "his new upper-socioeconomic face" and yes, membership in the in the afore-mentioned Exclusive Social Club...
...largest supplier of photographic equipment to the multibillion dollar amateur market, took a giant step toward the elimination of misbegotten pictures. The company's solution is a compact new camera called Disc. Said Modern Photography Contributing Editor David Eisendrath after trying the photo mite: "It is virtually idiot proof...
This is by no means a call for isolationism. The West must expand trade and undertake a meaningful dialogue with the Eastern Bloc if it is to have any positive influence at all. Ultimately, though tangible reform will only come from within. Solidarity is proof that the peoples of Eastern Europe are beginning to openly reject their system; it is tragic that it was a movement born perhaps a generation too soon...