Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which, it is implied, are also temporary. Give the kid some time, and he will probably turn out to be an admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign -- to bed a virtuous young wife, Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly) -- is not presented as idle and amoral womanizing but as proof of his capacity for authentic emotion. Too bad he has what we now are fond of calling "an intimacy problem," and, as a result, this affair and ultimately his life come to a bad and premature...
Airline Isaacson, co-chair of the the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, the major lobbying organization for the bill, emphasized the victory as proof that the gay and lesbian community "can continue to win in political and legislative arenas...
...wonders, in particular, about evidence that the besieged Machiguengas, dispersed into small groups by enemies and harsh conditions, retain their sense of community through a storyteller who travels wherever listeners can be found, recounting tribal legends, history and gossip. Such a person, the determined writer concludes, amounts to "tangible proof that storytelling can be something more than mere entertainment...
Hardly any time elapses between the onset of a political scandal in Washington and the search for the smoking gun. No one is culpable until such explicit proof is found, and it hardly ever is: the cagey Washington player wipes off his fingerprints and heaves the weapon into the river...
When George Bush proclaimed himself the environmentalist candidate in an outdoor campaign speech on Aug. 31, 1988, he had to mop his brow several times as he spoke. Last year was the hottest ever recorded, spurring a debate among scientists as to whether the mercury was registering proof of the "greenhouse effect." Carbon dioxide and other chemicals are spewed into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and gasoline; the gases trap radiation that has come from the sun and that would otherwise escape into space. The result is global warming: over time, sea levels will rise...