Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Without concrete proof of guilt, both world opinion and Americans' own moral sense would make overt military action. Yet increasing support to their enemies (such as Iraq, which is bogged down in war with Iran) would finally make Iran and Syria understand the costs of sponsoring or aiding terrorist attacks. Certainly, such action needs to be weighed against our other geopolitical interests in the area. But doing nothing would only show weakness and invite more attacks against Americans...
Frank says the Democratic landslide in the state two years ago is proof that Reagan-brand conservatism is not a big draw in the state. Shamie, touting Reaganite ideology, pumped $2.3 million, most of it his own money, into his '82 Senate campaign against Ted Kennedy, but still received only 38 percent of the general election vote...
...years the reasons for having Olympics tend to fade, but the proof of value is fresh now in the faces of the athletes. Certainly nowhere else in sports, and maybe nowhere else at all, do the emotions show through the contests so clearly or compellingly, to the point of dominating first the action and then the results, finally becoming a theme more powerful than any one anthem or all of them combined. There must be a lot of great Communist Greco-Roman wrestlers around the Soviet Union and East Germany, but no one spoke of hollow victories in boycotted company...
...technique, popularized in the U.S. in the 1970s after a Japanese surgeon perfected the arthroscope, is increasingly being used for repairs to the shoulder and elbow. But the fact that arthroscopy now accounts for 90% of all knee surgery in the U.S. is proof of its major application. Dr. James Nicholas, director of the Lenox Hill Institute of Sports Medicine in New York, calls the knee the body's most vulnerable joint, "the most complicated and the least suited to perform what it is asked to do." Ligaments joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep...
...other legacy Humphrey left behind: a certain sweetness, a corny, prairie-bred conviction that folks don't have to be mean and nasty to get what they want. That naiveté was his undoing but also his strength. Early in his career, the politician asserted, wide-eyed, "The proof that God exists is that all men are brothers." Hubert Horatio Humphrey never learned any different, or any better...