Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time in coming weeks. Within 24 hours, the daily Le Monde reported that police sources had identified a prime suspect: Albert Maltret, 52, who was arrested in 1986 for landing a single-engine plane on the Champs Elysees. "It's not me," Maltret told Le Monde. "They have no proof against...
...found that on-site visits [by current minority students] are effective because Harvard has a reputation as a really presitigious institution, and [many of the prospective students] in their own minds just didn't think that they stood a chance of getting in," Blackman says. "Our recruiters are visible proof that they...
...items on his agenda. "I think it is absolutely essential that we do better," he says. Most other publishers agree. Nearly 100 news organizations were represented at the N.A.B.J. job fair, where a blizzard of minority resumes were traded. But for skeptics who have seen it all before, the proof is not in the prospecting but in the follow-up. Says Monte Trammer, the first black publisher of New York's Saratoga Springs Saratogian: "Affirmative action appears to be an area where whites are rewarded for intent and effort rather than results...
...scholars came to sharply different conclusions in essays published earlier this year by the Harvard Business Review. Supply-Sider George Gilder, author of the book The Spirit of Enterprise, cites the roaring success of several of the newest Silicon Valley semiconductor firms -- including Chips & Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor -- as proof that such start-ups are the best hope for continued U.S. economic growth. In what Gilder calls the "law of the microcosm," he contends that the use of computers has given individuals more opportunity to innovate. Says he: "As circuitry is compressed onto single chips, it enhances enormously the power...
...says an American counterintelligence official, came from information collected over many months suggesting that the Warsaw Pact countries possessed "bits and pieces" of top-secret NATO wartime contingency plans. Investigators then discovered proof that Soviet planners had highly classified documents. Last week West German officials arrested retired U.S. Sergeant First Class Clyde Lee Conrad and charged him with being the linchpin in an "especially grave" Soviet intelligence penetration of Western defenses...