Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some doctors, after diagnosing ischemia, prescribe nitroglycerin, calcium blockers and other drugs that relax constricted arteries or slow the heart rate. Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...
...MARCH 1983 speech, the President suggested that strategic defense might provide an exit from the dilemmas of nuclear deterrence. The goal of SDI was to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But to escape from deterrence requires a leak-proof defense not only against ballistic missiles, but also against bombers, cruise missiles and weapons smuggled into our cities. Such a perfect defense seems unlikely...
...sometimes landed him in trouble. As head of NSC operations in Central America, he organized a private supply network that provided aid to the contra rebels seeking to oust the Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Senate and House committees investigated North's role last year, but found no proof that he had violated a U.S. law regulating aid to the contras. The colonel's name briefly surfaced again last month when Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was captured in Nicaragua after his plane was shot down while he was flying weapons to the contras. A card found in the wreckage belonged...
...Supreme Court has heard free exercise cases brought by a variety of claimants. The Court noted in 1944 that "men may believe what they cannot prove. They cannot be put to the proof of their religious doctrines." In 1981, it reiterated: "Religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others," and need not be articulated with "clarity or precision...
...critic must also try to prod "critic-proof" resident theaters, he said. "Without intellectual excitement from outside the [resident] theater, it would be a school play for geniuses...