Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendants have previously been accused or suspected of crimes. Some have state charges pending. Some have been convicted and have served time. No one, least of all the Angels, denies that they have dealt in drugs and illegally owned guns. But is this record of "bad acts" proof of conspiracy? Or does it mean, as the defense maintains, that they are individual criminals so pathetically disorganized as to be an easy mark for gung-ho U.S. attorneys intent on controlling the defiant Hell's Angels to the public's satisfaction...
...apprehensive even until this fall. But after his showing in a scrimmage, I realized he was the man to fill the job," Scalise said recently. "I said all along this team would be as good as its goalie, and Lech hasn't let us down once. He's solid proof that a player can make it if he's willing to invest time and energy...
Eugenio Gonzalez, 34, a trained computer programmer: "I refused to join any of the party organizations, so I worked as a laborer for under $50 a month in a coffee factory. When you apply for a better job you must have proof of revolutionary activities. When they fired me as a computer expert, I got so desperate I bought a rubber inner tube and I was going to float across to Florida. But I was afraid. My father believed in the revolution. Now he weeps...
...were being honored in Florida, more than 7,000 miles away in Tehran something most indecent was happening to their corpses, Iranian authorities tore open the plastic bags that contained the charred remains, poked at them with knives and held up pieces for government television crews. 'This is proof of Carter's crime," ranted .he Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, formerly Tehran's chief Islamic judge. Then, switching hypocritically to mournful tones, he added: "My heart aches for the families of these victims...
Some skilled employees seem practically recession-proof. California's booming aerospace and microelectronics industries are surfeited with back orders that are expected to keep production lines humming for months...