Word: proofing
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...edition of the "Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs" is a swamp of data which is only useful it if it turns out to be correct. There is no evidence that most of the assumptions are accurate any more than there is proof that the new federal budget and its forecast deficits are accurate. The White House recently changed its deficit projection for the next fiscal year by $89 billion. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Robert Gates is right, three-star Army Lieut. General Stan McChrystal is just the guy to turn things around. On May 11, Gates announced plans to install the former Green Beret as the top U.S. and NATO commander for the troubled nation. Some analysts hailed the surprising overhaul as proof that the U.S. is rethinking its conventional approach to combat, especially given McChrystal's background as commander of the military's clandestine special operations in Iraq...
...ACLU maintains that only by releasing the photographs - collected during the Pentagon's various investigations and involving a half-dozen sites - can Americans determine for themselves how widespread, and sanctioned, such abuse was. "These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib," said Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer...
...capable of data-transmission speeds of up to one gigabit per second, says John Lindsay, carrier relations manager at Internode, an Internet service provider that delivers broadband to Fernbrooke and across Australia. "The network will evolve over a 40-year period," he says. "Fiber is a pretty future-proof technology...
...most recent advances, rather than reversing their steady gains of the past year. The country's President, meanwhile, ahead of a trip to Washington, told foreign journalists that as far as his intelligence agencies were aware, Osama bin Laden was dead - though he readily admitted that they had no proof. The rituals recalled the days when General turned President Pervez Musharraf habitually deflected the Bush Administration's demands for tougher action against extremists. And as President Barack Obama prepares to welcome President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington next week, it's plain to see that the two sides...