Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of Star Wars seized on the initial snafu as proof of the program's folly. Said Physicist Robert Bowman, president of the Institute for Space and Security Studies in Potomac, Md.: "The problem is in applications of an immensely complex system . . . The chances are that (it) never could be debugged...
Analysts viewed all these events as proof that the once glamorous computer industry is in a serious skid. "This is not a slowdown," said Esther Dyson, editor of the trade journal Computer Industry Daily. "This is an old- fashioned, dog-eat-dog shake-out. Before it's over, there's going to be a lot of red ink and some casualties. It's not going to be a pretty sight." The industry is still growing, to be sure, but at a dramatically reduced rate. It will show an estimated 23% gain this year, in contrast to a 56% increase...
...side of the "green line" in Christian-dominated East Beirut, were unable to retrieve it for 24 hours. Not until Sunday morning did a State Department spokesman announce that the body was at last on its way to a U.S. air base in Spain for identification. Used first as proof of the hijackers' resolve, the stranded corpse had thus become a symbol of the obstacles and divisions that afflict the terrorists' homeland...
...opening statements in April, the prosecution told the jury it would show that Von Bulow had sought to murder the heiress so he could inherit the millions he was promised in her will and marry his then mistress, former Soap Opera Actress Alexandra Isles. But some of the promised proof was never introduced. With carefully crafted motions, raising such issues as relevance and prosecutorial failure to lay necessary legal groundwork, Puccio persuaded Judge Corinne Grande to exclude Sunny von Bulow's will, testimony from her financial adviser and evidence that Von Bulow knew how to use hypodermics...
After performing those feats of damage control, Puccio narrowed his own case to one clear, pointed counterpunch. No crime had been committed, he declared, because Mrs. Von Bulow had never been given any insulin. A series of medical experts backed his contention that there was no firm proof of insulin injection. With much of the circumstantial evidence against Von Bulow in tatters, most lawyers agree that the jury had little choice. But some disparaged Puccio's performance. "What victory?" snorted one former colleague. "Against a prosecutor with little experience and a judge who leaned his way?" Others were more impressed...