Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovering the ways to mobilize our communities--vote by vote, door by door--we prove again the aphorism that all politics is, still, local. And this is a lesson with practical applications for all of us. Latinos in Massachusetts must mobilize their community to vote. Jarrett Tomas Barrios '90 is an attorney at Hill and Barlow and the Democratic candidate for the 28th Middlesex seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
CSICOP defines a skeptic as someone who questions the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it. A skeptic believes that science can improve society...
...turns defiant, evasive and testy -- though never openly hostile -- Gates conceded little to government attorney David Boies' attempts to prove that Microsoft had a pattern of using its market dominance to bully potential competitors, although his memory lapses and evasions sounded hard to believe. You'd have to score this round a gritty draw -- making the video unlikely to fly off the shelves at Blockbuster...
...young and inexperienced when he took over the CIA at age 44. There have been missteps on his watch. The Indian nuclear tests last May caught the agency by surprise. Critics complain that the CIA knew too little about the pharmaceutical plant the U.S. bombed in Sudan to prove it was producing chemical weapons for terrorist Osama bin Laden...
...extremely compelling and inspiring--until you descended into touting prayer. People are healed by the knowledge of trained physicians and nurses, by drugs discovered and developed by scientists and by each individual's own immune system. If the body is strengthened by the belief in recovery, that does not prove the efficacy of prayer; it proves the power of the brain and its connection with all other parts of the body. VICTORIA D. MCCOY Glen Haven, Colo...