Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have no [medical] proof that AIDS is not transmitted in this way," said Gallo...
...olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va. "They want hard proof that the child has learned something...
...fall. The same deficiency appears in Arthur Strimling's Kent; Strimling plays a servant, rather than a nobleman playing a servant. That complexity is crucial to the role of Kent, since in a class-conscious Elizabethan context, Kent's willingness to humble himself gives the most extreme proof of his devotion to Lear...
...slightly. The job security provisions include measures to protect miners' seniority and rights at mines leased to new operators, rules to benefit U.M.W. workers laid off as a result of subleasing and a requirement that mineowners notify the union when they plan to sell an operation and furnish proof that the buyer will abide by the union contract. In the past, new owners frequently broke existing wage contracts...
...brother, Capt. John Drew, drown'd 11 Jan. 1798, aged 47." The ring had belonged to Captain James Drew, who died just four months later when his own vessel, the De Braak, sank two miles from Lewes, Del., during a storm. This meant Amaral, 35, had proof that the wreck being explored was indeed the legendary British warship that preyed on the vessels of Napoleon's allies and when it went down, was reportedly loaded with gold bullion, jewels and gold and silver coins...