Word: proof
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...videotape from a McDonald's security camera of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking his watch just before he allegedly walked to a body shop and rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing. But again, the tape was just another piece of circumstantial evidence - not proof that McVeigh bombed the federal building. Says Cole: "While the government has done a masterful job at presenting the evidence at hand, prosecutors have yet to document McVeigh physically making the bomb. This is a key element that must be satisfied by the law." Another potential problem: Because the government...
...said, "is lacking a measured recognition of the extremely difficult situation in which our country found itself militarily and in supply terms." Given Switzerland's neutrality, the central question of guilt centers on what, if anything, Swiss bankers knew about the origins of the gold. The study reports conclusive proof that gold taken from concentration camp victims was mixed with plundered bank gold and resmelted into bars that were accepted, perhaps too readily, by neutral countries such as Switzerland. But it presented no evidence that the Swiss knew that any of the gold was gotten as it was: from...
Huber cites the proliferation of structural information in basic texts as proof of its centrality in modern biochemistry...
Which is putting it mildly. Blair isn't as publicly empathetic as Clinton, but as he demonstrated in late March, he is equally deft. The Tories had claimed "proof" that Blair was secretly planning to restore union power once in office. For many in Britain, calling someone a closet union lover is like saying in the U.S. that someone is soft on crime. Thatcher rode to Downing Street on a promise to curb union influence. If it worked for the Iron Lady, Major's camp figured, why not try it again? Trouble is, Blair's view that employees should...
...that this galling half success, the insult of being known but not well known, may have been too much for a prideful man. Last Dec. 7, some time after A Matter of Honor had been sent to the publisher--and been accepted--Izzi's body, wearing a bullet-proof vest, was found hanging outside the window of his 14th-floor office above Chicago's Loop. The rope slip-knotted around the corpse's neck passed back through the window, and was tied to the leg of a desk. On the floor was a loaded revolver. A hole, as if from...