Word: provenance
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...Iraqi parties compete for power. Sadr's rejection of direct participation in the national conference, for example, was couched not in complete rejection of the idea of a national assembly, but instead on the basis of a demand for such an assembly to be dominated by parties with proven mass support, such...
...issue of reason vs. ignorance, as the Democrats have portrayed it, but of recognizing two important competing human values: the thirst for knowledge and cures on the one hand and, on the other, the respect for even embryonic human life and a well-grounded respect for the proven human capacity to misuse newly acquired powers, in this case, the power to manipulate, reshape, dissect and redesign the developing human embryo...
Sara McMann, the 63-kg (138.5-lb.) wrestler, is proven; she finished second at the 2003 world championships. Unlike her teammates, McMann, 23, followed a sibling into the sport. Her older brother Jason wrestled for McDowell High in Marion, N.C., a small, Bible Belt town in the western part of the state. The football coach told Sara's mother that it would be "a cold day in hell before a female wrestles in McDowell County." That guy must have frozen his machismo off when Sara made the boys' high school team. Unfortunately, another kind of hell awaited: Jason was murdered...
...were the best investment. That decision was based largely on research from two respected sources: the Carolina Abecedarian Study and the Perry Preschool Project, both of which demonstrated the long-term value of helping younger children. The board also wanted to give to organizations that had a proven track record but that didn't receive as much publicity and funds as some of the more high-profile ones...
...drop their weapons and rejoin society," Allawi said in a statement. "The political process is open to all, and everyone is invited to take part in it." But Sadr has rejected the terms, refusing to be recognized simply as one among hundreds of leaders, many of whom have no proven constituency. And his refusal to withdraw his forces from around the holy sites in Najaf, instead stockpiling weapons there, eventually prompted the government to act. Even if Sadr himself was to be brought into the political process, they reasoned, he could not be allowed to maintain an independent military capability...