Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Leader himself having second thoughts before he died? A few signs suggest it -- and some South Korean journalists and intelligence sources did not hesitate to wonder whether Kim Sr.'s death might have been given a helping hand as a result. While no proof of this exists, what is known is that Kim Il Sung emerged from a semiretirement of sorts earlier this year and adopted a stronger public role, not long after the nuclear dispute with the U.S. and other countries began sharpening. At the same time, some North Korean officials had asked Chinese physicians for advice...
Zametkin's study was hailed as the long-awaited proof of the biological basis of ADD, though Zametkin himself is quite cautious. A newer study used another tool -- magnetic resonance imaging -- to compare the brains of 18 ADHD boys with those of other children and found several "very subtle" but "striking" anatomical differences, says co-author Judith Rapoport, chief of the child psychiatry branch at NIMH. Says Zametkin: "I'm absolutely convinced that this disorder has a biological basis, but just what it is we cannot...
...client were the worst kind of circumstantial evidence -- evidence that could be read as innocence as well as guilt, and the court should have "little difficulty in deciding that this certainly is not a case of any premeditated murder by anyone." In fact, he declared, there was insufficient proof that O.J. Simpson was guilty of anything...
...Found the first definitive proof of a supermassive black hole in the core of an active galaxy...
...White House to pass a strictly partisan bill. Under this all-or-nothing approach, Senate majority leader George Mitchell would ignore the Finance Committee and take the bill that was shepherded through the liberal Labor Committee by Ted Kennedy to a vote on the floor. Lacking a filibuster-proof majority, Mitchell and the White House would then dare Republicans to kill the bill and take the blame for gridlock. "You don't have to mention the Clinton plan in order to blame the Republicans" for blocking reform, explained a White House aide...