Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, my male readers might be grumbling and curling their hands into clenched fists. I hear you. Harvard's men are clearly not thrilled with the status quo either. The proof of the pudding is Kirkland House's famous Secret Santa ritual. It was overwhelming to note that while the women requested flowers, candle lit dinners and slow dances, just how many of the House's male residents listed massages from beautiful women among their fantasies...
Prothrow-Stith, however, is hesitant to critique the process, except by saying that "the proof is in the pudding...
...science and set the stage for the semiconductor revolution. Grove and his team won one of the industry's most prestigious awards for the work. At home, Eva got a hint that Andy might not be your ordinary Hungarian busboy. It was the kind of scientific triumph Grove craved--proof of the American meritocracy. At Fairchild, however, none of the suits cared...
...Tribune reporters used the Internet to legally purchase an army-issue M-1 assault rifle without registration or background checks, from a member of the Civilian Marksmanship Program ? an official program privatized in 1994. While the CMP requires registration, background checks and proof of marksmanship training before delivering weapons to members of the public, it does not regulate the resale of those weapons. As many as 500,000 weapons have been sold to the public under the program since 1921, and the military has earmarked a further 373,000 for release in the near future. Which may bring a growing...
...include wars they did not fight, degrees they did not acquire, events that did not happen, even defining moments they did not have. Last Thursday the body of former U.S. Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence was dug up from Arlington National Cemetery after no one could come up with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into the icy Arctic Ocean when his ship was torpedoed. It turned out, however, that he was at Wilbur Wright Junior College...