Word: proving
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Their arrival in Kinshasa could bring a final round of bloodshed, but the emergence of Kabila and a new generation of leaders in neighboring countries offers a fresh start for the long-suffering region. As a revolutionary, Kabila has yet to prove his devotion to democracy or ethnic even-handedness, but world leaders are encouraged by his role as a protege of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a onetime leftist guerrilla who has embraced capitalism, led his country to a newfound prosperity and turned friendly toward...
They also woke up to a Labour majority of such a size--419 seats--that it should prove easy to push through Tony Blair's program of giving power to Scottish and Welsh assemblies and kicking the hereditary peers out of the House of Lords. It is the biggest Tory defeat in 165 years: half the government have lost their seats, the party is virtually leaderless, the succession is wide open, and the only Tory politician who is looking calm, secure and confident is Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned loyally for John Major but privately forecast his catastrophic defeat. She will...
...House of Commons will be much more hostile to European federalism; the campaign proved that the British people do not want a common currency or a European superstate. With a united party to back him, Blair ("I am a British patriot, first and foremost") will prove to be a much tougher proposition to Chancellor Kohl and President Chirac than the volatile and spineless Major. I said to Blair not long ago, "It may be your historic role to take Britain away from the European federation and towards a mere free-trade relationship." He replied, "I believe you may well...
...could prove to be an advantage to farmers, however, since chickens and cows make their own myostatin. In the future, artificially brawny beef cattle could be a profitable source of fat-free meat...
...that four days before the bombing, a man named Robert Kling ordered delivery to the Dreamland Motel's room 25 - the same room that a motel clerk had testified earlier that McVeigh was staying in at the time. But on cross-examination, the restaurant owner acknowledged she could not prove that Kling was McVeigh as prosecutors allege; she never saw the man who called in the order, and the delivery driver didn't get a good look at him. Also Friday, jurors saw a videotape from a McDonald's security camera of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking...