Word: proofing
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...information from U.S. officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure added pressure on Libya to come clean, Seif al Islam admits, but the lack of bullying...
...impudence toward economic method, Harvard turned meekly to the study of next policy steps. (One such Harvard Medical School analysis was tellingly titled “How the Game Is Played.”)The invasion of Iraq was initiated through a lie—although the rock-ribbed proof of this has gone nearly unremarked on campus. The war was, ostensibly, undertaken to prevent massively destructive weapons in Iraq from falling into the wrong hands. Yet between April 3 and May 24, 2003, after U.S. troops occupied, searched, and vacated the al-Qa’qaa weapons depot, looters...
...TIME's report on Opus Dei was essentially correct and fair, but the repeated references to the society as "secret" and "secretive" were off the mark. The story is proof of our transparency, based as it was on interviews with many of the faithful of Opus Dei, who did not hide their membership but on the contrary made an effort to answer all questions, including some of a very personal nature. Still I consider the article essentially accurate in its description of Opus Dei and of the criticism that it receives. It was an honor to cooperate with TIME...
...cartridges collected on his property reminds him of the fragility of peace. "As a citizen who lived with Préval through the past, I look at him with a question mark. Since he was declared the winner, so far so good," Sassine says cautiously. "But the burden of proof is on him. My main concern? Security, security, security...
...They can chew through almost anything,” Packer says. “That’s why plastic rodent-proof containers are now standard at dining hall storerooms...