Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bayonet may be sheathed for now, but the harsh truth is that Haig is running on what might be called the vindication platform. Bitter at the Reaganauts for what he once called the "guerrilla campaign" against him as Secretary of State, he believes (correctly) that Iranscam is proof that Reagan indeed needed a strong foreign policy "vicar." Equally astringent on domestic policy, he castigates Washington's "fiscal flabbiness." He is likely to be the Republican most critical of major aspects of the Reagan record, foreign and domestic...
NEVERTHELESS, THE attraction of the final clubs still tugs hard at many a member of the Harvard community. What Ms. Couch chooses to do on her own time is her own business. She has not broken any rules, and she is not proof that the University administrators are playing fast and loose with their decison to deny the clubs affiliate status...
Then, dramatically, a speech is delivered, a press conference is called or a debate is held. The President seems able to stand up. He seems in control of his saliva. The pundits inevitably notice a renewed sense of "vigor" in the man. For proof of his vitality they point to the one-liner which Reagan always comes up within these situations...
...noted not only by the Chinese and Japanese but possibly also by Indians in the American Southwest. The New World evidence comes in the form of images carved and painted on rock walls in northern Arizona showing a celestial object adjacent to a crescent moon. There is no proof that this primitive artwork represents the supernova, but archaeological dating techniques show the Indians were in the area when the star flared, and astronomers have calculated that the supernova indeed appeared in the sky very close to the crescent moon...
...majority, said that to be considered eligible for asylum, refugees need only prove a "well-founded fear" of persecution. In a strongly worded concurrence, Justice Harry Blackmun accused the INS of "seemingly purposeful blindness" in its refusal to see that Congress had intended a less stringent standard of proof...