Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doveryai no proveryai, or "Trust but verify," was a favorite Reagan Administration phrase in the arms-control lexicon, but it is easier said than done. While nobody seriously proposes signing agreements that can be readily violated, opinions abound on what constitutes adequate proof that the other side is not cheating...
...Oedipus, with its searing scream of self-revelation; after intermission he would mince on as Mr. Puff, the giddy paragraphist of Sheridan's The Critic. It was all part of a 70-year striptease in which this consummate quick-change artist always had one more veil to remove, and proof of what director Peter Glenville called Olivier's "greed for achievement...
Most foreign bankers have greeted Menem's plan with hedged optimism. But since Argentina has failed to keep up its payments to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, neither agency is eager to issue fresh credits without some proof of economic progress. "What's announced on paper can be very different from the results," said a U.S. credit analyst...
...Nearly four months after the spill, there is no proof that Hazelwood was drunk when his ship ran aground. In fact, his crewmates claim he was not. A test given about ten hours after the grounding found that his blood-alcohol level was a little more than half the 0.1% drunk-driving limit set by the state of Alaska and 50% higher than the 0.04% limit set by the Coast Guard for seamen operating a moving ship. Some toxicologists have suggested that Hazelwood may have had a severely high 0.22% blood-alcohol level when the ship struck the reef...
Most of the nominees were rejected on the grounds that they lacked qualifications. Last week Ryzhkov, who had vowed to fight for his nominees, thought better of it. "I could not see any substantial proof that would enable me to defend them," he admitted. "They simply did not meet demands in one area or another...