Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading video manufacturer, Flynn invented many of the most popular games on the market. But through the dirty dealings of one Dellinger, now chief executive of the company, Flynn was cheated out of fame and fortune. Using his home terminal, he searches the corporation's computer memory for proof that he was robbed...
...convention provided some proof that the fighting spirit of the N.A.A.C.P. remains intact despite all the association's woes. "This is a momentous moment, a big day for the N.A.A.C.P.," said General Counsel Thomas Atkins last Friday. From the buzzing crowd, a woman shouted, "Well, tell us! Don't keep us in suspense." Atkins then announced that the U.S. Supreme Court had unanimously reversed the decision of a Mississippi court, which had assessed the N.A.A.C.P. more than $1.25 million in damages for supporting a 1966 boycott by blacks of discriminatory merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. Jubilant delegates burst...
...state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges to impose busing when necessary to cure school segregation even if it resulted from housing patterns that developed without any official intent to segregate. Federal law requires proof of official intent. When they approved Proposition 1, Californians essentially embraced the looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote, the Justices upheld that action. Wrote Justice Lewis Powell: "It would be paradoxical to conclude that by adopting the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the voters...
...crime. In many states, the defense must show, usually by a "preponderance" of evidence, that a suspect was insane in order to win acquittal. Judge Parker chose to use the stricter guidelines in order to avoid giving the defense technical grounds for appeal. This put the burden of proof on the prosecution. A person is defined as insane, he instructed, if he, "as a result of mental disease or defect, either lacked substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law or lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct...
...with the inflated tally. But some conceded that election day had indeed been marred by irregularities. Said Luis Nelson Segovia, a deputy from the center-right Democratic Action Party: "The possibility [of fraud] has merit. There were so many variants and shortcomings on election day. But there is no proof." Christian Democratic Party Spokesman Guillermo Antonio Guevara Lacayo agreed that there had been fraud, but said that the total number of votes in question was probably around 50,000, rather than 700,000 to 800,000. Said he: "They were mainly the result of breakdowns in the system...