Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Desperate squirrels have even broken into trash bags and bins. Alpert's office fought back with double-flapped trash bins, but the supposedly squirrel-proof bins weren't much use against the ravenous rodents...
...Brien is proof positive...
...John Cloud, who follows in the footsteps ofPresident-elect Bill Clinton as a Rhodes Scholarfrom Arkansas, sees himself as living proof thatathletic achievement is not essential...
Rodriguez offers himself as an example and proof of this. He is a Mexican American with an "Italian suit, an American voice and an Indian face," a Catholic homosexual who was taught by Irish nuns in a parochial school in Northern California, a scholar of English literature whose Spanish retains a gringo accent. He steadfastly refuses to give any of these identities primacy, to allow any one gloss on his thought...
...OMINOUS WARNING FROM THE HIGHEST-RANKING Chinese official yet to speak out against Governor Chris Patten's democratic reforms finally sent Hong Kong's key barometer of confidence, the heretofore spook-proof stock market, plummeting nearly 8%. From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have...