Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson is not a league champion. But for the first time since anyone on this team was born, Harvard ended a season with undisputed proof that it belongs in the upper echelons of the Ivy League...
...sparked rumors of his demise for years, most Chinese registered barely a sigh. Black-clad television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer Yin Zhixian. "It's unlikely that there will be major changes, because everyone is a beneficiary...
There is beauty in simplicity, and Smith's photographs are proof of this. Large open spaces unfold in front of our eyes. A figure stands before us, often looking straight at us with penetrating eyes, sometimes contemplatively looking off into the distance. The whole composition is balanced with nothing to distract the viewer...
...rate hike is coming after the Fed's May meeting. In December, rates remained rock steady after Greenspan cleared his throat and sent investors scurrying for cover. Still, Greenspan made it clear that he didn't think that this unprecedented expansion means we have entered a new, recession-proof age: "History is strewn with visions of new eras that in the end have proven to be a mirage. Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time." Now that he has repeated his concern about soaring stock prices...
...York City resident Rudolphine Schlinger says she too has proof her husband William had Swiss bank accounts. The wealthy furrier had made deposits before and during the war from his home in Versoix, Switzerland. But he died in 1985 without having retrieved the funds. Then a December 1996 article in the newspaper Jewish Week listed his account at Swiss Bank Corp. At a hearing last week in New York City attended by a representative from the bank, the 89-year-old widow appealed directly for restitution. "To you, sir, I ask, rather I demand, that you tell me what happened...