Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleagues have recently concentrated on such living fossils as the tribesmen of the Kalahari, who live much as man's earliest ancestors did, foraging for vegetables, sharing meat when they hunt successfully, carrying their culture in their heads. His conclusion is refreshingly optimistic: there is no proof in the hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari that man is an inherently violent "killer ape." The modern urge to mass violence appears to be acquired, not inherited...
...TriStar just after the first of the 300-passenger jets rolled off the Palmdale, Calif, assembly line. Production temporarily stopped in February 1971, when Britain's Rolls-Royce, the prime engine supplier, went bankrupt. The British government took over Rolls-Royce's aero-engine division, but demanded proof that Lockheed was financially sound before providing the equipment. Lockheed was indeed in trouble, but Congress approved a controversial $250 million loan guarantee for the company. The first TriStar was delivered to Eastern Air Lines in April 1972, about six months later than scheduled. The delays and uncertainties caused...
...never have been a Galileo of the social firmament, but as a journalist Vance Packard is clear-eyed enough to have seen, before anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that...
...most of the fashions and products (luxury gadgetry, stereos, color TV sets) that only the well-heeled could afford formerly. Then, too, the cultural conniptions of the 1960s and '70s helped subvert the rules of the status game; hell-raising youth provided adult Americans with (besides headaches) liberating proof that it is possible to have a good time while disdaining conventional symbols...
...were dropped after the emergence of the New Left than during any war in history. And worse, though the national mood on a single issue--the war in Indochina--changed, and changed abruptly, the country's heart and soul were not moved. Or they were not moved enough. The proof is in El Salvador, and Guatemala, and Honduras...