Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Registry officials said that no license is tamper-proof. "As soon as you make a tamper-proof license someone figures out how to tamper with it," Kathi Connelly, a spokesman, said...
...excavation has provided ample proof of Kovacs' prodigious achievement. Not that all of it is funny. Much of Kovacs' comedy strikes a viewer today as rather obvious and crudely executed. Steve Allen, another pioneer of live TV comedy, was a more dexterous verbal wit; Sid Caesar a more inspired sketch comic. Kovacs' contribution lay elsewhere. No performer, for one thing, was more at ease in front of the TV camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation...
...more likely results from the was directed by Israel and the United States against the Palestinian people for the past 35 years than from a Libyan plot. Not that Qaddafi is beyond terrorism. But if Libya is really responsible, why aren't we the people allowed to see the proof? Are we simply to take for fact the claims of a president who deliberately lied about U.S. medical students being endangered in Grenada two years ago? Lane Kenworthy Summer School Proctor Lionel...
During a ten-week trial, Marin County prosecutors argued that Bingham's flight was proof of his guilt. Defense attorneys contended that prison guards had slipped Jackson the gun, hoping that the incendiary black militant would be killed. Bingham, they said, fled to save his life. "To understand this case," declared Bingham's lawyer Gerald Schwartzbach, "you have to understand 1971 . . . We're talking about a time when students were murdered at Kent State and Jackson State...
Carlson said that SDI is likely to perpetuate the arms race because no shield system could possibly be effective enough to convince the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also cited the Reagan administration's argument that SDI could be used to protect U.S. missile silos as proof that the program is more an aid than an end to the use of nuclear weapons...