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Word: proofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the decision is not final, Harvard is leaning toward guaranteeing loans and jobs to those male students who would lose all federal grants, loans and work-study employment if they fail to provide the government with adequate proof of registration, committee members said...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Resisters of Registration May Get Aid | 2/15/1983 | See Source »

Moscow has also tried to exploit the groundswell of popular feeling against nuclear weapons in Western Europe for its own ends. After mass demonstrations were held in West Germany in 1981, an official investigation turned up circumstantial evidence but no absolute proof of KGB involvement. It is widely rumored, however, that money for peace groups has come from East Germany and that leaflets and handbills may even have been printed in the Soviet Union. West Germany's more than 48,000-member Communist Party has had an influence on the peace movement disproportionate to its size. During a meeting held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Indeed, a man from Osawatomie, Kan., hoping that Harvard would fill one such expectation, asked. "Please write me a letter back and let me know something." To prove that he was somewhat qualified, he sent along a three-page algebraic proof and a greeting: "Best of luck in football...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: 'The Adjudicator of the World' | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

...close to the mark One post card expounds: "It is interesting to note that it appears that Harvard has finally become the HAVEN OF REFUGE for discarded politicians" Other such thinkers have sent a number of theories for Harvard consumption, for instance. The Gold Arthritis Theory, the astrology proof theory. On Education of Minors, and the Jewish leukemia theory (offered by a self-proclaimed "Atomic...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: 'The Adjudicator of the World' | 2/9/1983 | See Source »

Winning is usually easy. In civil cases, the standard of proof is lower than in criminal ones. Says Yale Law Professor Joseph Bishop: "You've got to prove only that, more probably than not, the defendant murdered your deceased." In criminal doubt." court, the Drunk test is drivers have "beyond a long been targets reasonable gets of such suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Getting Status and Getting Even | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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