Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, although no one can know for certain what occurred, we have few lingering doubts. And most Americans seem to agree with us. As the results of two separate polls reveal, Americans are inclined to believe Thomas by a margin...
...tiny fragment sifted from the tons of debris that rained down over Lockerbie, Scotland, may at last reveal who blew up PAN AM 103. While both Syrian and Palestinian terrorists have been suspected of planting the bomb, the focus has shifted to the Libyan intelligence service. Scottish police, baffled by a fingernail-size bit of electronic circuitry from the wreckage, shipped it off to Washington. When FBI lab analysts compared the shard with the printed-circuit boards of two unexploded bombs taken from Libyan agents in Africa, it was a match. FBI agents and Scottish investigators tracked the timers...
...trick is to choose candidates with little or no "paper trail" to reveal their opinions, then be sure that the testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee maintains that mystery. Put simply, pick mediocre nominees and make them keep their mouths shut...
Though collecting from the skies is expensive, it allows access to places that were once unreachable, such as Soviet ICBM sites. But such data do not always reveal intentions. Aerial surveillance showed that Saddam had moved his army to Iraq's border with Kuwait last summer. It could not reveal whether he intended that merely as an act of intimidation or as a prelude to attack. Neither will technical spying prowess be able to predict popular uprisings like those that swept across Iran in 1979 or the Soviet Union this year. "You don't sense the mood of the bazaar...
...what can a 258-student experiment reveal about how a free market in education would work? There are, after all, 97,000 students in the Milwaukee public schools. Without greater funding and many more alternative schools, the voucher plan will remain mostly a symbol of black anger at the quality of public education. Herbert Grover, Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction and a fierce opponent of the voucher program, argues, "Our preppy President went to Phillips Academy, which costs about $13,000 a year. But it's O.K. to set a limit of $2,500 for little black kids...