Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm the trend: dessert sales at both are up about 15% over last year...
Intangibles: If Harvard is going to get a victory in the next four games, this is the time to do it. Home field, a weak opponent--the conditions seems right. Harvard needs a lift going into the final month of the season. A loss to Brown would confirm critics' opinions that this Crimson club is simply...
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov refused to confirm or deny that a release of political prisoners was in the offing...
...findings may please skeptics, but the shroud saga is not a major embarrassment for the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after the earliest known exhibit of the shroud, in 1354, a French bishop declared it to be a fraud. Through subsequent centuries the church refused to confirm its authenticity. The examination that finally discredited the shroud was conducted with the full blessing of the church, in an unusual alliance between honest faith and objective science. When Pope John Paul was informed of the negative report two weeks ago, he ordered, "Publish...
...confirm," she said, "that the Syrian government has told us they have custody of a hostage, an Indian citizen and legal permanent resident of the United States...