Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rely on now impoverished Moscow to bankroll its military machine, which runs on Soviet technology that was shown to be inferior in the gulf war. Egypt, which made a separate peace with Israel in 1979, is not interested. And in any event, Israel has nuclear weapons, a tough and proven military and a close alliance with the world's remaining superpower...
Cheney's record and his proven skills at stroking Congress would be solid pluses for the Defense Secretary as a running mate for Bush. Some Washington insiders believe he would take the job if offered it. He is very low key as a campaign orator, however, and three years ago he underwent a heart bypass ) operation. His doctor says he's fine. But Democrats could, not unfairly, ask whether the men on a Bush-Cheney team had a good ticker between the two of them...
...meantime, Poncy stymied the MIT hitters in picking up his second win of the season to go with no losses. He has proven himself to be a valuable middle-of-the-week starter whom Coach Leigh Hogan can use against non-EIBL opponents. This allows the top four starters--Sean Johnston, Tom Hurley, Jeff Mitchell and Giardi--to stay strong...
State Rep. Ricky A. Trombly, the assistant minority leader, says he welcomes this year's abbreviated approach because the drawn-out campaigns from recent years have proven exhausting and unnecessary...
Since then, the measure, a tax cap designed to give citizens more control over their payments to municipalities and to limit a city's total property taxes to 2.5 percent of the market value of the community, has indeed proven to be a successful and durable...