Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tonight, any such hesitation would likely prove deadly...
Thus Princeton's speed at H-Y-P may be its downfall at Easterns and NCAAs, while Harvard still has the potential to be much faster and prove its strength when it really matters...
...that Hubbell, who was Hillary Clinton's former partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, knows something about Whitewater that he's not telling, and that consulting fees to Hubbell arranged by Clinton friends were hush money to keep him quiet. It was Starr's effort to prove that Vernon Jordan was a hush-money middleman that gave Starr his path into the Lewinsky case. But Hubbell still insists he has nothing...
...case before a jury, Jones would have to prove that Clinton had conspired, in his official capacity as Governor, to deprive Jones of her constitutional rights. But it's hard to see how making a pass at someone and taking no for an answer violates the Constitution. (Jones' claims that Clinton retaliated against her for resisting his advances are far less convincing.) Nevertheless, the law required Judge Susan Webber Wright to give Jones every benefit of the doubt at the beginning of a case, and so she allowed Jones' lawyers to begin "discovery...
That's where the trouble started. Sexual-harassment suits have a tendency to spiral out of control because the relaxed rules of civil discovery permit lawyers for the plaintiff to rummage freely through the defendant's sexual history, to try to prove a pattern of "unwanted advances." In criminal trials involving serious sexual allegations, such as rape, inquiries into the sexual history of the alleged victim and the defendant are more carefully limited...