Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pockmark the inside and outside walls of the post and liberally ventilate the veranda's tin roof. Some local folks insist that much of the damage was caused around 1916, when Pancho Villa's men rode in for supplies during the Mexican Revolution, though there is in fact no proof that Villa or any of his men actually visited the store. Ivey is amused by the idea. "I don't know about all the bullet holes," he says, "but I do know that the roof was ventilated a few years ago at a dance. A feller felt so happy...
...Senate prepared to vote on the omnibus trade bill last week, President Reagan vowed to veto the package if the lawmakers did not remove a provision requiring that companies give workers 60 days' notice of plant closings. But the House had already passed the bill by a veto-proof 312 to 107, and the Senate was not about to back down. As the Senate's Democratic leaders struggled on Wednesday to line up votes and woo as many Republicans as possible to their side, the roll call was delayed several times. When the tally was finally taken...
...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the survival rate for 4,200 AIDS patients whose condition was diagnosed between late 1978 and 1983 is 2% to 5%, nearly all of them male homosexuals who contracted the disease through sexual contact. Such slender evidence is often taken as proof by desperate members of the homosexual community that they can overcome AIDS. "When people ask me what I do for a living," says Michael Callen, 33, a New York City musician who was discovered to have AIDS almost six years ago, "I say, 'Surviving is what...
Sultan was born in Asheville, N.C., in 1951 and is certainly among the more gifted American artists of his generation. But this show's catalog hums with inflated comparisons and claims. "He seems formed in the Manet mold," writes one contributor, Ian Dunlop, adducing by way of proof that Sultan, like the great Edouard, is ambitious, paints images from "modern life," looks at old master paintings, etc. Sultan does have a crush on Manet; a small still life with asparagus pays homage to Manet's famous single asparagus stalk, and a little detail of masts and sails in Manet...
Democrats tried to win over at least 14 Republicans and thus gain a veto-proof margin. They ended up with 11 GOP senators while losing one Democrat, retiring Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), who was conerned about the bill's changes in the Foreign Corrupt Practices...