Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addiction to battle (unless one considers his penchant for six-packs and Big Macs), but he had everything to prove. Wells has become the butt of hardball jokes, wearing his Yankee uniform like a pair of pajamas and angrily flipping balls to manager Joe Torre when he's yanked from games...
...also possible that the new generation of drugs emerging from the labs won't work very well, or that the much vaunted lack of major side effects will prove to be an illusion. All the enzymes and growth-factor receptors blocked by the new drugs play a role in normal cell division as well as in cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared...
...different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver dollars was resolved after Fisher flew to Mexico City and searched colonial dungeons to find the original dies from which the coins were struck. "I may have to go to Mexico again and look at the dies to prove these coins are real," says Fisher. "But I will be vindicated...
...likes saying that as much as she likes saying she's been to hell and back, but she's got the burns to prove it. And there is one more squiggle to her story that explains everything...
...reason for Greenspan to push rates higher. He knows it, and that's why he has made only one rate move in two years--remarkable inaction for a man who worries famously about "asset inflation" leading to a bubble economy. Yes, Greenspan may bump rates up just to prove he can do more than talk. But any such move would be isolated--like the one a year ago--not a series, which is what the stock market can't stand...