Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California. And before running for governor, he was, well, nothing. Nothing, at least that involved government. The record he built as executive of the Golden State and the surprising success he has had in getting his policies implemented as chief executive of the nation have been for many sufficient proof that experience in government means little for governing...
...accused the Sandinistas of transporting and supplying arms to leftist rebels in El Salvador, though the evidence is scanty at best and manufactured at worst. Last month the State Department introduced to the world a young Nicaraguan--whom they claimed they had found fighting with the Salvadoran rebels--as proof of the Communist network. The hardened revolutionary turned out to be a student returning home to Nicaragua from Mexico City. The paranoia about Nicaragua, which keeps telling Washington it is a "poor country that does not represent a threat to the United States," would be comical if grown...
...second offense, the minimum penalties would jump to $500 and ten days in jail. To step up the rate of conviction, many states have made a blood-alcohol level of .10% in drivers a crime in itself, rather than merely evidence of intoxication that must be buttressed by other proof. (To score .10%, a 160-lb. man would have to consume 5½ beers on an empty stomach in 90 minutes.) Even the judiciary, often criticized for being too lenient with drunken drivers, is becoming stern. Judges in Quincy, Mass., have agreed to put every first offender in jail...
...restricted to any elite class in America. "That may have been true 50 years ago, but not any more," Crosby asserts. Baker, who has played on both public and private courses, says "the surroundings are secondary--the golf is the main thing." The Ohio golf leagues are proof that it is "a working man's sport--definitely not elite," he says, calling it the kind of game where one packs a few beers into the golfbag and heads, shirtless, off into the sunset...
...strongest and most professional performance in the operetta comes from a freshman: Nan Hughes as Tessa, one of the gondoliers' brides. Hughes is a natural actress, and her commanding, sensuous mezzosoprano is the vocal equivalent of chocolate-chocolate chip ice-cream. Margery Hellmold's performance as Casilda is further proof that first-rate singers enroll at Harvard: her soprano has a rare purity and vigor but never becomes inappropriately operatic...