Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase was passed by Congress as a part of the 1984 deficit-reduction package. The bill increased the excise tax on hard liquor from $10.5 to $12.5 per gallon of 100 proof spirit. The tax rate on particular liquors depends on their alcohol content or proof...
...gaggle of other top Rajneesh functionaries. The bhagwan (revered one) called a succession of news conferences to denounce the nine or so who flew his coop as "fascists" and "criminals." He accused some of the defectors of an exotic miscellany of offenses. Offering nothing that authorities considered proof, Rajneesh asserted that there had been attempted poisonings of seven people, including Jefferson County District Attorney Michael Sullivan. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh ordered the attorney general to investigate, stating that "certain evidence, independent of the bare allegations coming from Rancho Rajneesh, tends to confirm that Mr. Sullivan was the subject...
...love the leading man"--in other words, fantasy's healing power is in the spellbinding, not in the political message. By acting out the parts in the gloom of his darkened cell for his initially reluctant cell-mate, Molina saves his sanity and helps break the ice with Valentin--proof positive of fantasy's rich payoff for reality. As with Spielbergism, style subordinates content for our protagonist...
...obscure. No one knows, for example, why it strikes women and men in about equal numbers in Central Africa, where the disease appears to have originated, while in the U.S. only about 7% of the 13,000 victims identified so far have been women. There are theories but no proof. Nonetheless, a review of the facts establishes that public fears are vastly overblown. The ways in which AIDS is known to have been transmitted...
Starting next fall, freshmen who have not been immunized against measles will be prohibited from enrolling in the College. A recently enacted state regulation specifically requires that students entering institutions of higher education in the state must show proof of immunity against measles and other vaccine preventable diseases such as tetanus and diptheria...