Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian steppes, with peasants hurling stones up at the fabled horsemen in attempts to achieve outs, while the free- swinging cossacks were responsible for most of the offense. The amazing success of the cossacks, who often went undefeated for decades at a time, is sometimes cited by Izvestia as proof that polo as well as baseball originated in sports-minded Russia...
...movie has received all the hype of being a major cinematic event. It is not. Instead, La Bamba is proof--for anybody who still needs it--that the 1980s are frighteningly similar to the 1950s...
...though, scientific proof for such claims is scanty. Water beds are helpful in the prevention of bedsores, a problem that afflicts up to 30% of patients in chronic-care facilities; some hospitals also endorse the use of flotation mattresses to help premature infants breathe more normally. Opinion is mixed, however, on whether water beds are good for back pain. Orthopedist Steven Garfin of the University of California at San Diego gives cautious approval. "Patients tend to do a little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene...
Today the Court cuts the heart out of two of the most important and inseparable safeguards the Bill of Rights offers a criminal defendant: the right to submit his case to a jury, and the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt . . . The skeleton of these safeguards remains, but the Court strips them of life and of meaning . . . The Court asserts that when a jury votes nine to three for conviction, the doubts of the three do not impeach the verdict of the nine. ((But)) we know what has happened: the prosecutor has tried and failed to persuade those jurors...
...Necessarily, public well-being takes precedence over individual rights, notes Larry Gostin, Harvard professor of health law and a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The danger," he says, "lies in using public health the same way some use national security -- as an overvague justification with no proof that it will do any good...