Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is going on? Scientists have a standard reply to questions like this. It is the nature of weather, they say, for wild fluctuations to occur. Their proof: there is a record broken every day somewhere in the world. But after last week's weather -- which showed every sign of being this week's weather as well -- the standard reply starts to wear a little thin. Why are so many records being set in so many places right now? Could it have anything to do with the holes we've drilled in the ozone layer? The forests we've leveled...
...pictures, Saddam Hussein told frustrated U.N. inspectors who have been trying for more than a month to install surveillance cameras at two missile- testing sites. The U.N. responded by proposing to place tamper-proof seals over the most sensitive missile components until the camera issue is resolved...
...even the scientists from Bristol-Myers Squibb admit that any euphoria is premature. "I was surprised by the amount of press attention our study received," said Pamela Trail, who led the research team. "Obviously, we're tremendously excited by our data, but the true proof will be in the human trials." Within the next six months, the company will seek the Food and Drug Administration's permission to begin those crucial tests -- and perhaps generate more meaningful headlines...
...forced by any means to submit to its tenant's self-serving needs. For the center's commitment is farther reaching than the gates of Harvard. That both these entities, the center and the department, have long since passed adolescence and grown into maturity is proof of their necessity...
...center, through its exhibition program, has achieved an honorable, respected international reputation. The department has outgrown its facility and proof of its legitimacy is evident in the Sert Gallery's recent exhibition of the department's alumni achievements in the art world. Both the Carpenter Center and the VES department have expanded beyond their earlier constraints...