Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estate received no award, even though her husband won the $400,000, which the defense lawyers accuse the jury of handing out as an inappropriate gesture of sympathy. Still, anti-tobacco lawyers think victims and their estates will have an easier time winning awards in other states where the proof-of-liability threshold is far lower. Mississippi's, for example, is just...
Prosecutors, however, tend to see elaborate fabrications as proof that the women are rational. Declares District Attorney Ray Gricar, who handled the Comitz case: "Obviously, Sharon was depressed and 'lost it,' but there's no way she was out of her mind. She had to know exactly what she was doing and had a clear head to do it." Criminologist Daniel Katkin of Pennsylvania State University sees a dangerous fallacy here. "The mistake is to think that ; insane people are incapable of making plans," he explains. "The reality is that crazy people also make plans, but they make crazy plans...
...statistics gone awry involved the gross national product, the broad measure of the country's output of goods and services. On April 26 the Commerce Department announced that the GNP grew at a moderate annual rate of 2.3% in the first quarter of 1988. Experts interpreted the figure as proof that the economy was running smoothly. A month later, Government statisticians boosted first-quarter GNP growth to 3.9%, a change of nearly 70%. Suddenly, investors had reason to fear that the economy was overheating and that inflation was in danger of accelerating...
...four years, the Harvard women's soccer team has been supported by one of the best goalkeepers in America. After stopping more shots than a bullet-proof vest, two-time All-America Tracee Whitley is graduating with a net full of Harvard records...
Forget the suit, though; forget the Southampton and Upper East Side homes; forget all inklings that a conformation has taken place in Wolfe since the time he pulled an all-nighter to complete a memo for Esquire. The Novel is the proof that Wolfe--fiction or non-fiction--has not lost much of his original punch. As he wrote in the introduction to New Journalism, "A writer needs at least enough ego to believe that what he is doing as a writer is as important as what anyone he is writing about is doing and that therefore he shouldn...