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Backup quarterback Damon Huard, while playing consistently in leading the Dolphins to a 5-1 record this year with Marino out, is still unproven as a starter...
...granting the prisoners clemency, President Clinton has acknowledged that the justice system can make mistakes and affirmed that in a true democracy, an individual cannot be sentenced for political viewpoints or unproven assumptions about his or her intentions. It remains to be seen if the treatment of the released prisoners in upcoming years will reflect this affirmation, but for now I consider it a step forward to have the lives and rights of Puerto Ricans, United States citizens for the past 80 years, considered on the same level as those of other Americans, even as the controversy that has exploded...
...Scouting Report] Seems like a perfect match: the youngsters who watch MTV meet the geezers who prefer 60 Minutes, all packaged as cradle-to-grave, one-stop shopping for advertisers. But cross-media selling is still unproven...
...think so. First, you have to be awfully nimble, because you never know when the son will turn prodigal, and most of these smaller companies are niche players battling Cisco on only one or two fronts. Second, what makes Cisco truly great is its management. These other companies are unproven. Third, only one company has ever really competed against Cisco hand to hand without getting crushed--Ascend, which just got bought by Lucent. If you insist on a Cisco relative, Lucent, an East Coast rival, might be the ticket...
Financing was another roadblock. "We went to 20 banks that wouldn't make a loan because the plan was too unconventional," says Corbett. "Everything was untried and unproven." But he and his wife were dauntless. "We never considered giving up," Judy says. "We weren't developers, we were missionaries...