Word: proof
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...personal victories for two members of the Reagan Cabinet. Secretary of State George Shultz has waged a long and sometimes lonely struggle to develop a consensus in the U.S. and among America's allies on the need to strike back against states that sponsor terrorism; Tripoli and Tokyo are proof that he has succeeded. Treasury Secretary James Baker, with the pragmatic shrewdness of a Texas pol, has been stroking and cajoling his fellow finance ministers in hopes of finding better ways to manage world trade and finance policies; after cagily downplaying the chance of significant agreements, he came away from...
...Linda Elizabeth never responds, she is indirectly responsible for a powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...
Lakian, who blames the newspaper for wrecking his 1982 campaign for governor, has also filed an appeal in the Appeals Court seeking to reverse the judgment and win "nominal damages" of at least a penny as proof that he was right...
...Symbolic nominal damages must be awarded wherea defamation plaintiff...has demonstrated that thedefendant has breached a duty owed to plaintiff,"Grutman wrote in the brief. "This award is givenin vindication of plaintiff's rights and does notdepend upon proof that plaintiff suffered anyactual or quantifiable amount of damages toreputation...
...Unfortunately, most of the time it's not worth prosecuting because the incident happened too long ago, and there's just no proof," says counselor Lisa I. Backus '86. "If it's date rape or there's any hint that alcohol or drugs have been involved, forget about the Ad Board...