Word: proving
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Recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court may prove relevant to the case. Several rulings made at the end of the court's last term are widely seen as limiting the effect of the federal Americans with Disabilities...
...point of the sweatshop campaign is that if you're running a factory in Indonesia or China, it's your duty to prove that your factory is OK," said PSLM member Nitzhan Shoshan...
...belly" for the job. Americans like to see whether their future President can make it through a tough campaign. When he gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes, that fire will get him through the even tougher days and nights. For McCain, the challenge is not to prove he has the fire, but the opposite: that if he carries the McCain flame into the White House, it won't set the mansion ablaze...
...second black box from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 could prove the most important. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than...
...determining if that was the case may not be easy. Reconstructing the contents of a tape that has spent two weeks submerged under 250 feet of salt water could prove difficult. The NTSB will probably need translators since the last words of the Egyptian flight crew were likely in Arabic. And if in fact there was no mechanical problem, what went wrong? Did an intruder succeed in wrecking the plane? Or did the pilot himself somehow send the plane down, either through some kind of error or even deliberately? In the end, the questions may outnumber the answers provided...