Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commercial is a prompt to either bolt to the kitchen for a quick bite or hit the remote for a quick escape. But last month Master Lock, a division of Fortune Brands based in Milwaukee, Wis., likely became the first national advertiser to run a one-second ad--snack-proof and zap-proof...
...swagger that seems required of men who would do what no one else can. "I just go out there and do what I'm supposed to do," he says. "If we need a home run to tie it up late, I've got to do it." Want proof? Before an at bat against Texas last week he revealed to a teammate that he was about to hit one out. He took two pitches and then sent the ball into the second deck. But there's also steel behind that swagger: even when he fractured his wrist in 1995 after crashing...
...PROOF IS IN THE PRINT...
...best proof of history are its survivors, and just as a war shrinks in a nation's rear-view mirror as its veterans pass on, the early, headiest days of the Space Age have just gotten a little more remote: Alan B. Shepard, the first American into space, is dead. Though two of those original Mercury seven astronauts have fallen before him, the ebullient, iconoclastic Shepard is the first to go gently, of Nature, of old age. That is not an excuse to begin forgetting...
...that Congress has passed an IRS-reform bill, a few million taxpayers locked in battle with the dreaded agency may soon have a fair fight. Under the law, the burden of proof in many cases would fall to the government instead of the accused, and mistreated taxpayers would have the right to sue the IRS for damages. In addition, unlucky divorces caught holding the bag wouldn't always be responsible for the dubious accounting of their former spouses...