Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engineering degree at Georgia Tech and recalled how his college football coach had helped him with his studies by making him run steps when he cut chemistry. As a professional football player, Curry learned that only 37 percent of NFL players had a college degree. If you want proof positive that Curry was hired to do more than win, just look at his own record. Coaching at his alma mater, he had a losing record--hardly the normal credentials to coach at one of the premier programs in the country...
...These are very ambiguous data that can be interpreted any way you want to," says Kamin. "I'm not saying that anyone is falsifying facts or anything, just that we really know very, very little." For the Minnesota researchers and their allies, however, their study is just one more proof that parenting has its limits. Says Psychologist and Twin Researcher David Rowe of the University of Oklahoma: "Parents should be blamed less for kids who have problems and take less credit for kids who turn out well...
Currently students can use a driver's licenseor state identity card as proof of age, and housecommittee members are responsible for carding...
After a Christmas break of eggnog-induced hangovers and relative-induced headaches, the Happy Hacker has returned to campus without any of the pleasant goodies that he asked for in his hacker gift list; no hundred-proof vodka, no fancy flight simulators--not even little teflon pads for his mouse...
...messages keep coming at Ronald Reagan, from friends, senior leaders of both parties, veteran public officials belatedly summoned to provide outside counsel, even his wife. Their essence can be put in one word: act. Fire Chief of Staff Donald Regan or CIA Director William Casey, or both, as proof that the Administration intends to make a fresh start. Call the key figures in the Iran arms-contra funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional...