Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything from Australia is as cute as koala bears or Mel Gibson. With their debut album, 12 Days to Paris, Melbourne's grungy-looking and grungy-sounding Huxton Creepers offer proof, by reviving that wonderful 60s genre of Ugly Rock...
Several hours after placing the teabag, Dragoljob Cetkovic called the supermarket claiming that some cheese had been poisoned, citing the teabag as proof. The store tested 157 cheese samples, but found cyanide only in the teabag. The call was later traced to Cetkovic's apartment...
...whether Abdallah was only a "little boss" who had "let himself be captured," as a French intelligence official claimed, or an architect of international terrorism, as the Americans maintained. Both sides agreed with the French police source who said of Abdallah, "He was good -- no paper trail, no proof. In short, a professional." After hearing the evidence, the judges apparently concluded he was too good, in fact, to be let off lightly...
...Toscanini is to study how they perceived themselves," argues Joseph Horowitz, a former music critic for the Times. "As a personality, even as a musician, Toscanini embodied 'self-made' virtues distinguishing the New World from the parent culture of Europe. As the dominant figurehead for Great Music, he furnished proof of New World high cultural achievement . . ." The quality of his interpretations was almost irrelevant; in Horowitz's view, Toscanini and the great American cultural inferiority complex were made for each other...
...midst of another agonizing reorganization, as the liberal civilian leadership tries, with U.S. support, to gain control over the military (not an uncommon problem, incidentally, for American friends from the Philippines to Guatemala). Critics point to the lack of significant contra military gains until now as proof that they cannot win. Perhaps. But it is equally possible that the lack of success has to do with two years of a grossly unbalanced arms race between the contras and the Sandinistas. Such imbalances are not rectified overnight, nor do they lend themselves to military spectaculars by the disarmed party. Guerrilla...