Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most in peril would be Arafat, whose credibility with Palestinians is hardly high enough to sustain further disappointments. He desperately needs proof that his peace concessions have not been in vain and would profit from fast-paced discussions on the territories' final status, but he faces a new Israeli government more intent on slowing everything way down. Says Souheil Natoor of the hard-line Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Now the Palestinians are saying to Arafat, 'You did whatever the Israelis asked of you. And the result is the Israelis voted against peace.' The Palestinians will...
...character also counted. An aura of slipperiness has long dogged Peres' five-decade political career. Once a relative hawk who helped launch the very first West Bank settlements in the 1970s, Peres turned into a promoter of peace so dreamy that his about-face was read by some as proof he had no principles. Other voters were repelled by a history of devious political infighting they saw as self-serving manipulation. At home he is tagged a congenital loser, unable to secure a single unambiguous victory for Labor in four previous tries...
...public university. Back in the '70s, when the number of college graduates was growing rapidly because of the coming of age of the baby boomers and a wave of campus construction, the economic "return" from a college degree began to fall; economists nodded their heads with satisfaction at this proof of the law of supply and demand at work. Then in the '80s the return began to rise dramatically because the high-tech economy put more and more value on the degree. Today college graduates earn double what high school graduates earn, or more...
...victims who received packages from the law firm of Coale & Van Susteren offering to represent them in return for 25% of any money the airline awards them. At least one package contained a picture and biography of Van Susteren, now a co-anchor on the CNN program Burden of Proof. While sending unsolicited offers isn't illegal, it is kind of cheesy, especially since the couple's firm has already been censured for soliciting clients in West Virginia. But John Coale pleads not guilty to using his wife's celebrity to reel in business. "Greta's no longer with...
Kedlaya was always at the top of the list. As a first-year, if you were stuck on a proof for Math 21a, you called Kedlaya, who was guaranteed to solve the problem in 30 seconds flat...