Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future of Internet content." Ditto Apple's technology patents, which under the new cross-licensing agreement will go from causing endless litigation (the Mac faithful will surely consider Microsoft's undisclosed payment to Apple to settle infringement claims de facto proof that Gates knows he stole their OS) to becoming weapons for Microsoft coders to wield when the time comes...
...when speculation that New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani might be having an affair surfaced last week in Vanity Fair, followed by the tabloids, it sparked not so much a feverish rush of readers to newsstands as a snippy debate in the New York press about standards of proof. Just as it now takes an airborne President punching out terrorists for a movie to open big, it may take, as former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards so archly put it, finding a politician in bed with a dead girl or a live boy to arrest public attention...
CHRISTIAN MORTENSEN, 114 PROOF: Danish birth registration. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Sailed to Ellis Island in 1903 on a ship named the United States. VICE: A nice fat cigar. ODDS: Clearly the Establishment pick, but in this crowd he may be just a young...
MARIA DO CARMO GERONIMO, 126 PROOF: Baptismal record issued by the Roman Catholic Church. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Her back bears scars from her 19th century slave master in Brazil. VICE: Only her priest knows. ODDS: The sentimental favorite, but she's never been able to sway the judges in the past...
AUGUSTA WATTS, 120 PROOF: Social Security record. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Born in the same year as Mata Hari. VICE: Not a one, say her nurses, but she sometimes has pureed bacon and eggs for breakfast. ODDS: An unknown, but insiders say she could...