Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pill form. This is crank--smoked, snorted or injected--and it makes people live like coyotes, says a cop standing outside a south-side Billings bungalow while agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration toss the place for drugs. "This town is coming unhinged," another cop says. As if to prove their point, the suspected crank house whose street-side picture windows are sheathed with tinfoil (sunlight is the cranker's natural enemy) starts belching evidence of criminal lunacy--hypodermic needles clogged with meth, automatic pistols of several calibers and an AK-47 with a loaded 100-round clip...
Stein's experience in the Meese investigation should prove invaluable. He understands the nitty-gritty of how special prosecutors investigate and strike deals, and he knows the law they must follow cold. But more than that, he is a walking, talking precedent for prosecutorial forbearance. It took Stein just six months and $312,000 to wrap up his investigation and decide not to bring any indictments against Meese. So when he finally sits down with Starr, Stein won't be just Lewinsky's defender. He'll be Exhibit A in the argument that it may be time for Starr...
...that Pele is really cool. The movie features real players, real plays, and some great soccer at Colombes stadium in France -- just like the real thing! So enjoy some soccer where the good guys always win -- and CP promises a shiny new donkey to anyone who can prove his theory that the German captain threw the game as a gesture of peace and internationalism...
...husband Desi--a Cuban bandleader she married shortly after they met on the set of Too Many Girls in 1940--who urged her to try television. CBS was interested in Ball, but not in the fellow with the pronounced Spanish accent she wanted to play her husband. To prove that the audience would accept them as a couple, Lucy and Desi cooked up a vaudeville act and took it on tour. It got rave reviews ("a sock new act," said Variety), and CBS relented...
...rebuilding process is officially over, terminated with Harvard's outstanding effort in the ECAC quarterfinals against UNH. The reconstruction is complete, and the new parts are in place. All that remains is for Harvard to prove that 1997-98 was indeed a stepping stone toward a level of play above that of its past Ivy League-champion condition...