Word: proof
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Pentagon officials were ecstatic about the results of the $300 million test. It was, declared one official, like "hitting a bullet with a bullet." Moreover, it was proof of the potential of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. It seemed to signal an important first step in building a high- tech astro-shield against nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union. A Wall Street Journal editorial proclaimed, STAR WARS WORKS...
...past four years, Western intelligence agencies have suspected Sudan of playing a major role in promoting Islamic terror around the world. But there still hasn't been any real proof offered: no reputable eyewitnesses, no photographs, no documents. Nevertheless, the U.S. last week put its official stamp on the proposition, adding the country to its short list of pariah states sponsoring terrorism. The State Department declared that "evidence currently available" showed that Sudan allows its territory to be used as a sanctuary and training ground for all manner of Muslim fundamentalist and radical organizations. The announcement followed news reports that...
...sixth Tony nomination (she has won a Tony and an Emmy and been nominated for the Oscar four times). Tall and stately, with angular looks that let her play glamorous or plain, she specializes in emotionally austere drama but offstage is fun loving and approachable. She is living proof of the dividends that grants can pay. She vaulted into prominence playing the white girlfriend of black boxer Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. It opened in 1967 in a Washington production financed by the NEA and went on to Broadway and the movies. Alexander has often worked...
...that album sounded a lot like the band's 1990 release, Repeater. Fugazi's greatest achievement, however, is not its music but its idealism. And idealism repeated over and over in the face of potentially corrupting success is a tribute to itself. Fugazi is living, punk-rocking proof that, as one of these new tracks says, "if it's not for sale...
Equal-protection strategies, which have been attempted before by gay activists, rest on the Constitution's distaste for the "disadvantaging" of an individual because of a group affiliation -- an argument used successfully by blacks and women. Only proof of "a significant State interest" can outweigh that aversion...