Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to view the story with humor as it receded into the past. He even went so far as to appear on stage with the rock group R.E.M. two years ago to help sing its song, "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" To some, his off-key performance was conclusive proof that the media is indeed beaming hostile messages at people...
What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...
...conversation is a violation of federal law," Republican Whip Tom DeLay wrote in a memo to Reno. "I urge you to pursue this matter with vigilance and due haste." The Justice Department has said it would look into the matter. Department lawyers noted that, in general, federal law requires proof of intent to intercept and disseminate overheard conversations, but said that requirement might be satisfied by the call's tape recording and the subsequent relay of the transcript to the Times...
...single cause has been identified. It had long been Pentagon doctrine that if a soldier didn't immediately become sick from chemical weapons, he or she would never suffer any adverse effects from them. But recently the Pentagon has conceded there is little proof for that theory, and that low-level exposure, perhaps combined with other environmental or medical factors, may have played a key role in triggering the problem years after exposure...
...Pierre Salinger The veteran journalist announced in France last month that he had proof that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by a U.S. Navy missile. His proof turned out to be an elaborate Internet rumor. James Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, chastised Salinger "for raising confusion in the minds of many people here and abroad...for causing consternation and pain to the families of the victims" and for promoting third-hand information "as some scoop of his." Talk about getting shot down...