Word: proof
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...says it was Massey, not she, who in 1985 brought Madison's business to Rose. When her long-sought billing records were suddenly discovered two weeks ago at the White House, Mrs. Clinton said the work they showed on behalf of Madison, 60 hours over 15 months, was also proof she did little work herself for Madison...
...language he called Oak (after the tree outside his office window). The veteran programmer wanted to get the microprocessors inside consumer appliances (TVs, VCRs, car alarms) to talk to one another--a programming challenge that required writing software code that was not only highly compressed but also virtually idiot-proof. Most consumers, unlike most computer owners, don't expect their toaster ovens to "crash...
According to Melissa Brown at Prudential Securities, 86% of the most popular mutual funds did worse than the Standard & Poor's 500 index in 1995. This is more proof that the national pastime of picking the winning mutual fund is a wasted effort. Most people will do better buying the so-called index funds that give them a guaranteed average return...
...your ID," says Maple. "Now I can radio the precinct for outstanding warrants or parole violations. Maybe I bump against that bulge in your belt; with probable cause, I can frisk you." Civil libertarians have been screaming, but shootings, gun murders and other signs of firearms use are down--proof, Bratton says, that thugs are leaving the guns at home...
MANY INSECURE PEOPLE ARE HOPING FOR archaeological proof that the Bible is the absolute, revealed word of a supreme deity. This proof will never come, and people will continue in their personal religious beliefs, based on one premise, their faith in a particular deity. Only the gullible and naive will still believe that theirs is the one true religion. WILLIAM E. ADINT Woodstock, Connecticut...