Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discussion of University disciplinaryprocedures, Melissa S. Lane '88 advocated theUndergraduate Council's proposal to replace thecontroversial Committee on Rights andResponsibilities (CRR) with a student-facultyjudiciary board that would hear all cases wherethe burden of proof rests on the students...
...firm evidence as to which accomplice may have been with Agca in St. Peter's Square. None of the cash that Agca said he was promised for the shooting has ever turned up. The prosecution showed that Agca received aid and money from Turkish friends, but nowhere is there proof that they intended to help him shoot the Pope. ( Rather, they may have been supporting one of the jewelry-store robberies or other holdups to which he admits. Says Claire Sterling, author of an influential book, The Time of the Assassins, which argues that there was indeed a plot...
During the campaign, Chirac has been the leading opposition spokesman. He points to his solid nine-year record as mayor of Paris as proof that he and his party can get things done. If the opposition scores big on March 16, Chirac, 53, is the candidate most likely to become Premier. While he has refused to say whether he would accept an invitation to serve as the next Premier, Chirac last week seemed to have all but assumed the post when he demanded that Mitterrand pledge not to obstruct the alliance's economic program. Mitterrand, unimpressed, retorted during his television...
Skinner said that internal states can be traced back to observable physical states, using the etymology of words as proof...
...self-conscious moderns, though, Mies tended to equate a kind of compulsive candor with Truth. Asymmetry, architectural ornament and symbol were deemed dishonest, sentimental. His idea of order was a kind of neurotic Mr. Spock classicism, as if the solemn, repetitious expression of a building's structural components was proof of virtue...