Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond the Beltway, the deal has plenty of detractors who may prove only too happy to provide legislators with the ammunition to blow the proposal to bits. Among the attorneys general, the chief naysayer through most of last week was Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey III, who argued that his colleagues were pushing too quickly for a settlement. (And they in turn accused him of grandstanding.) "They're trying to rush this through before we realize we've had our pockets picked," Humphrey said at midweek. He claimed tobacco could pay more than twice the agreed-upon amount, or some...
...confession signaled the first real break from the industry's see-no-evil posture. Reportedly, the event prompted North Carolina Governor James Hunt to call his friend Bill Clinton. The White House then got in touch with Mississippi's Moore to ask if talks with the industry might prove productive...
...that would be reckoning without the PR panache of Diana, Princess of Wales. Yanking 80 dresses in black tafetta, white chiffon and sheer frufru out of her closet to ring in $3.26 million at Christie's late Wednesday night for British and American AIDS and cancer charities may well prove one of the Princess' more gracious moves of late. Particularly given talk that ex-hubby Prince Charles had pushed to have the high-profile auction moved out of London for looking a bit too much like a Salvation Army initiative for royal comfort. But bargain shoppers are unlikely to shell...
...positing a government conspiracy with limitless resources, the more fervent believers in the Myth also inoculate themselves against heresy: any concrete evidence the government or anyone else unearths to prove that the crash was strictly terrestrial is obviously engineered--it's a cannier brand of fundamentalism. The appearance of skeptical articles in a national magazine like this one could be part of a disinformation campaign to distract letter-to-the-editor-writing UFOlogists from more fruitful pursuits. For all you know, this author may be a member of an ultra-top-secret National Security Council committee with a terribly spooky...
...investigating Bosnian war crimes, could try him for international crimes against humanity. While Cambodia's coalition government has already petitioned the United Nations to try Pol Pot for the deaths of some 2 million Cambodians, the measure must first gain the approval of the Security Council. That could prove tricky since China, a strong supporter of the Khmer Rouge regime, could easily block the trial by wielding its veto power. Trickier still: confirming that Pol Pot has actually been captured by rebel Khmer Rouge soldiers. The latest sighting, reported by a top Cambodian military official this weekend at Khmer Rouge...