Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we agree with the staff's support of the strike against Iraq, their criticism of impeachment is unreasonable. The impeachment proceedings have not been a debilitating distraction. On the contrary, yesterday's well-executed military action is clear proof that the government continues to function smoothly even while the House proceeds with the Constitutional process of impeachment...
Appearing in advertisements has long been something famous people do for money, but there used to be something slightly embarrassing about it. That's no longer true, and the proof is that people who now do it don't need the money. In fact, the two richest men in America have appeared in ads recently. Bill Gates has endorsed a brand of golf clubs, and Warren Buffett is pushing private jets. Peter Lynch, the investment guru, retired from Fidelity years ago but is back starring in commercials for the firm. Nathan Myhrvold, a Microsoft executive, also has endorsed...
...nature to search for heroes, and Moses, rebel and saint, is as relevant today as he ever was. He is a metaphor for our times, proof that a single flawed human being can be chosen to change the world. Is it any wonder then that the great and the small cite him for inspiration? Martin Luther King Jr. evoked him in his thunderingly prophetic speeches. Only last month several Republican Congressmen grandly compared the fallen Newt Gingrich to the man who led the chosen people out of the desert. Movie directors have immortalized him, most famously as a bewigged Charlton...
...role. Women who say they've been harmed insist there's a cause-and-effect relationship between leaky implants and major immune-system disorders; manufacturers swear their implants are safe. But even though the FDA finally ordered the devices off the market in 1992, neither side has offered much proof for its position...
When Tad wakes up on "Christmas Eve Eve Eve...more alive than dead," the arrival at renewed faith in life is genuine, not merely a convenient, uplifting message. The reader feels as though O'Donnell has provided proof that in being dysfunctional may lie the only hope for self-awareness and connection to life and love. If being dysfunctional means going through life as Tad does with "joyous difficulty," then there is hope for true understanding, acceptance of life's absurdities as well as promise...