Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While they use the featherdusters on the giant engines, Harvard officials should not think for a minute that this ruling is a vindication of their plan. Rather, it stands as proof positive of what money-and the best Boston lawyers-can achieve. There are rumors that the University is already looking for some way to bypass the federal statute requiring Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of their plans to operate the plant...
This song goes nowhere, reciting the details of human inconveniences and miseries without any promise of ending them. Yet for all its gloom, "Life During Wartime" was a hit for Talking Heads, their biggest to date--proof that for the listening public (and the dancing public, which also latched onto this song), war had become a fashionable subject...
...concept of organic evolution is, up to this point, the only idea that offers a rational basis for predicting the appearance of new varieties of life, such as DDT-proof mosquitoes and penicillin-resistant microorganisms...
Iraq now has uncontested control of Khorramshahr, up to the banks of the Karun River. But the seemingly endless rows of pockmarked or gutted houses provide vivid proof that the door-to-door fighting was bitter and bloody. Iraqi soldiers recount with incredulity how Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's zealous guardsmen, after their ammunition was exhausted, persisted in fighting to the death with sticks and knives. Said an Iraqi major who conducted some of the mop-up operations: "They were crazy. Many of them wore a gold key around their necks. They said they were told by Khomeini that...