Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...KERREY Smitten by his new publicity, the Nebraskan is quietly asking friends if they would help run a 1992 campaign. A charismatic Vietnam Medal of Honor winner, could he be the Ailes-proof candidate...
...several other groups are fed up with the lack of governmental attention to the issues concerning them, Yard says. As proof that the current two-party system is "leaving too many citizens out," members of these special interest groups point to the consistently low voter turnout in this country--most often these non-voters are the nation's underprivelged...
...BURDEN OF PROOF by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The summer's hottest read by the Chicago attorney and best-selling author brings back Presumed Innocent defense lawyer Alejandro Stern, now faced with the mystery of his wife's suicide, a commodities-market scandal and the realization that justice is never blind when it gets too close to home...
...consequence could be to establish the boundaries of quantum mechanics, which says particles can suddenly jump from one place to another without traversing the space in between. Penrose's intuition, although he has no proof, is that these effects may apply not just to atoms but also to objects as big as brain cells. An act of creative thinking, he argues, could be the outward manifestation of neurons making quantum jumps from one energy state to another. Since computers do not operate by quantum rules, he says, they will never have insights...
...cash started running out. So far, Trump has not missed any payments on his estimated $3 billion in loans and junk bonds. But his lenders and suppliers have begun to fear that Trump's domain is an overleveraged structure built on swagger and bluff. His creditors have suddenly demanded proof of his financial prowess, and he is coming up short. "He's a desperate man. Everywhere Trump is walking, there's a fire under his feet," observes Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis financier and sometime raider. "It shows how quickly things...