Word: proof
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Univision's coverage is proof that soccer has a definite place in this country. The mere fact that the Spanish-speaking network, unlike ABC or ESPN, has decided to show all the games in a non-pay-per-view setting shows what kind of following soccer already has here. Thus, we should all boo and hiss as we see a local area sportscaster mocking the earnest Univision play-by-play man on the 11 o'clock news. Clearly, he doesn't understand what the World Cup excitment is all about...
...rise of the religious right is proof of a well-established axiom of politics: even a small number of committed activists can take control of the party caucuses and committee meetings that usually draw small crowds. In Minnesota only about 1% of the state's active Republicans attended the caucuses that chose delegates for last week's convention. Ideological commitment also ensures that the troops of the Christian right work overtime for their chosen candidates. "Those who serve," televangelist Pat Robertson once told TIME, "have a tendency, ultimately, to be those who lead...
...album's most intensely felt moment comes on I'm a Mother (Hynde's two daughters are 11 and 9), a feisty rebuttal to soft images of motherhood: "I understand blood/ I understand pain/ There can be no life without it," she sings. Hynde is living proof that even for punks, life doesn't have...
Other professors say there is not enough proof for Mack's ideas to be taken seriously. Many skeptics have explained away physical marks-which are often superficial bruises-as simple self-inflicted injuries...
Despite lack of proof that a "Gulf War Syndrome" exists, the Clinton Administration today announced its support of a bill that will compensate all veterans who reported unexplained symptoms within two years of returning from the Persian Gulf. Since the war, over 23,000 veterans have experienced such ailments as chronic fatigue, depression, headaches, joint pains and skin disorders, which many claim were caused by the Iraqi use of chemical and biological agents. At the same time Washington was taking financial responsibility, Britain's Defense Ministry rejected the possibility that the condition even exists...