Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, by week's end only a few boats-23 in all, carrying some 495 refugees-had put into Florida since Castro first opened the door two weeks before. Most of them were their own best proof of the need for a well-organized evacuation plan. After gusty squalls whipped the Straits last week, the U.S. Coast Guard picked up half a dozen floundering exile craft with scores aboard...
Reassurance Needed. Business plans this year to increase its overseas spending for plant and equipment by at least 20% (to $7.4 billion or more), which some take as proof that the Administration's vaguely worded appeal for "voluntary" restraint has been a flop. Reports of White House dissatisfaction with this approach, which had been advocated by Commerce Secretary John Connor, were so widespread that Lyndon Johnson had to reassure Connor of his continued confidence. The Secretary did some reassuring too. "Businessmen definitely are not letting me down," said Connor, who once warned that if he failed businessmen would "find...
That decision placed a huge burden of proof on plaintiffs in libel cases involving public officials. Equally significant, however, was something the court did not do. It did not define "public official," and alert libel lawyers and judges began to suggest that the words could really be translated into the far more general "public figure...
Thousands of allergists and millions of patients have long "known" that hay-fever shots are beneficial. More cautious scientists have waited for reliable proof - which is hard to come by because 1) like all allergies, ragweed pollinosis is mixed up with emotional problems, and many patients think they feel better if they get any sort of treatment at all; and 2) symptoms vary as unpredictably as shifts in the wind...
...Though they haven't institutionalized prejudices as we have," Owen said, the British have established a color bar that applies in all areas of society. He said the Los Angeles riots served as proof to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the flood of non-white immigrants must be integrated into society...