Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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S.K.I, researchers are embarrassed by the case, which suggests, at the very least, that the early enthusiasm about Summerlin's work may have been premature. But many of them are nonetheless sympathetic to Summerlin. They feel that even if the charges against him should prove to be true, he may be a victim of the overly competitive spirit now pervading science. Caught between the enthusiasm of his superiors and a federal-grant system that tends to award funds for results rather than research, Summerlin has been under enormous pressure to reproduce the results of his first experiments. There...
...thing, if the Government can show that a defendant swore to two conflicting statements, it need no longer prove which one was false. Gone too is the stiff requirement that the testimony of a single witness who contradicts a defendant must be backed by a second witness or by other evidence. As a result, "a man can be convicted merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes...
Despite their new advantages, prosecutors must still prove three things: that the defendant indeed lied, that he knew the statement was false, and that what he lied about was significant to the case. Further, the proof must be exceptionally precise. Last year the Supreme Court threw out the perjury conviction of Movie Producer Samuel Bronston. Asked by a creditor's lawyer if he had ever had a Swiss bank account, Bronston answered under oath: "The company had an account there." Though the answer seemed to imply-falsely-that Bronston himself had not had an account, the court held that...
...after their decision, many of the survivors could not bring themselves to eat human flesh. Finally, a medical student, Roberto Canessa, cut some matchstick-sized slivers from one of the bodies, placed them on the battered aluminum roof of the plane to dry in the sun and then, to prove his resolution, forced himself to eat one. All but two of the others eventually followed his lead. Despite their cannibalism, the boys evolved a careful set of rules to govern their conduct. Food was still rationed, and a series of priorities developed to determine which bodies were to be eaten...
...weeks and even months without going more than half a mile from the Square. Why anyone needs a guide to an activity as simple as drinking is unclear, but the success of the HSA bartending course and the healthy sale of wine books, drinking books, and tourist guide books prove that the people want--indeed, crave--instruction in how to make their own drinks, or failing that, where to find someone who can mix a passable concoction and guarantee the peace in which to drink...