Word: proof
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...events in Tokyo were a clear warning to the world. Terrorism has taken a step across a threshold that security experts have been anticipating with dread for decades. It has been known that there are groups out there that are willing to kill at random. There is proof that they are able to use chemical weapons, and possibly biological and radioactive ones as well, that can destroy far more people than conventional bombs and bullets. Now that nerve gas has been used on ordinary citizens, it may possibly happen again: the fact that terrorists are copycats and hungry for publicity...
...common-law ceremony in Austin, Texas, in September 1991. Soon after his March 1992 disappearance, she was told by Guatemalan military authorities that Bamaca had committed suicide rather than be captured and tortured by the army. But Harbury believed her husband was still alive and pressed for proof of his fate. In August 1993, authorities exhumed the body of a man they claimed was Bamaca; an autopsy revealed it was someone else...
Instead, Bailey handed dynamite to Clark when he claimed last Tuesday that a black former Marine named Maximo Cordoba was ready to testify that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. Clark let loose, claiming that Bailey's proof of this event would "evaporate into thin air." In response, Bailey puffed up his chest and said, "I have spoken to him on the phone, Marine to Marine, and I haven't the slightest doubt that he'll march up to that witness stand and tell the world what Mark Fuhrman said to him." That night the TV newsmagazine Dateline NBC aired...
...more of the faculty--not just those who now are members of three or four different committees--took the initiative to get involved, the life of the College would be immeasurably strengthened. Dean Knowles' words are admirable in and of themselves, but the proof is in deeds, not words. If he can inspire his faculty to action, then he will have won a victory...
Hershberg says that while the ClintonAdministration is forcing government agencies toshow why documents should be kept from the public,Harvard puts the burden of proof onresearchers--who must prove that certain documentsshould be opened...