Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Libyan leader Moammer Khadafy flees into hiding. Before he leaves, he decries President Reagan for sending "roving NATO hit squads" after him. "He is talking nonsense. He has no proof. Anyone who would believe him is nuts," Reagan says...
...things start going bad at home for the Administration, the public's attention is directed overseas; this time toward Libya [Dec. 21]. Why should anybody believe such talk of assassination teams when there hasn't even been any proof...
...enterprising Toronto-based outfit called the International Star Registry. Founded by Canadian Advertising Man Ivor Downie, 44, the company will assign a name, any respectable name, including those of rock and royalty, to a star in any requested constellation for a $30 fee (credit cards accepted). As proof of the cosmic christening, the registry sends back a star-spangled certificate with the orb's new name inscribed on it, together with charts ocating it in the sky and assurances that the name will be locked up safely in a vault in Switzerland and kept on file forever...
...stack away, in stall C-6, sits living proof of the Scholar's words. "Yeah, I keep coming back to this desk," says John Driscoll '82-3. "It's got the least amount of inane graffiti. There's wonderful choice of messages over there"--he gestures to Kyriazis's stall--"and over here is a long discussion of Radcliffe women." But why this particular row of desks--Harvard has more than 100 libraries? Driscoll looks up from the pile of cards and papers and books in front of him--an Ec 1550 term paper-to-be. "Because it's subterranean...
Lavishly illustrated and lucidly written, The Making of Mankind convincingly explains what we know about our origins and firmly rebuts the so-called scientific creationists, who believe that evolution should be regarded merely as a theory. The Making of Mankind offers the best proof to date "that species do change and have changed as a result of evolution ... a fact as incontrovertible as gravity...