Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dame. Don't mourn too long for this foursome. The police came and asked them to turn down the volume. They did, the police left, they turned the knob back up again, and three months later they graduated (a feat they celebrated with another, even larger, party). They are proof positive of an axiom worth knowing: most of the rules and regulations relating to conduct are enforced about as often as state statues against oral...
...White House. The President knows how to play the crowds, and he's found an easy victim. Forty eight hours and you're out on your ass, he says, and a nation angered at having to take the train to New York stands and applauds. It is sad proof of the weakness of American labor that he would dare such a thing--even sadder proof that he is succeeding...
...true colors--the true greed for money and control--of our President and his corporate sponsors shows more clearly each day. Yes, a lot of union members were suckered into voting for Reagan, but now there is abundant proof to convice them of their error. With his televised threats, Reagan has laid down the challenge, and from it labor must not shink...
...plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning to cool people...
...certain that their opponents own the referee. The time is World War II, the place is Paris, and these are the underdog's underdogs: a team of P.O.W.s and concentration camp victims, recruited to play the Germans' best and, by their inevitable loss, offer some more spurious proof of Aryan superiority...