Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposes is to dig out 56 acres of wetlands, moose-breeding ground high on the mountain, and build a 77-acre lake to hold toxic mine residues called tailings. This mass, weighing about 5.5 million tons, would be held back by a 90-ft.-long earth-fill dam (earthquake-proof, say the company's engineers), and lined with clay and long-lasting plastic. At the end of the mine's 15-to-20-year life, the water level would be lowered and the crushed sulfate tailings would be capped with rock and dirt. The remaining water would be stagnant...
Nine years ago, Dr. Robert Gallo was one of science's supernovas. When the National Cancer Institute researcher unveiled proof that a virus caused AIDS, he had every reason to look forward to fame, tidy royalties from the sale of blood-test kits and, down the road, maybe even a Nobel Prize. Instead he soon faced doubt, criticism and accusations of fraud. In 1985, just a year after his historic announcement, a dispute erupted over who really identified the AIDS virus -- Gallo or Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The two agreed in 1987 to share credit...
Your paper printed the accusations of our critics without naming those critics and without giving us ample opportunity to respond. It is stated that we "target vulnerable individuals using brainwashing and kidnapping techniques." There is no proof or justification for the statement...
...rapper who began to sour on the gangsta image when one of his associates was killed, says rap felons are proof that "you can't sweep society's problem children under the rug. When you look under that rug you're gonna get blasted in your face." But Eazy-E, a former member of N.W.A., thinks that, if nothing else, self-interest ought to persuade them to cool ! off. "A lot of rappers are trying to live a fantasy," he says. "They have careers, and something stupid could end everything that's goin' good...
...have hoped to seduce us with sheer banality. There's no narrative crescendo, no crisis, no risk of a crisis; in short, no plot. You can revel in the lucid, elegant prose until you're blue in the face, but A Big Storm Knocked It Over constitutes the acid-proof proof that happy stories about happy people makes for unhappy reading...