Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line, Simpson pleaded for officials to help his 26-year-old girlfriend, Christine Prody. But by the time police officers responded to the call, Prody's perilous predicament had been replaced by a friend's two-day cocaine binge with Guerrero. And Prody was even feeling well enough to confirm this second version of the story...
...more patients with similar symptoms. All were elderly and all spent time in their backyards. That suggested bites by mosquitoes carrying the St. Louis encephalitis virus, a particular menace to the elderly, though usually in the South. Tissue analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seemed to confirm the suspicion. As the tally rose, the city began an anti-mosquito spraying program in a 4-sq.-mi. area of Queens. That quick action seemed to contain the epidemic...
...Branch Davidian site, seeking to take it out of the unplumbable depths of FBI bureaucracy and make it available to outside experts. Francis was involved in another controversy last week when he told the Dallas Morning News that Delta Force units--whose existence the Pentagon is loath to confirm--may have taken part in the siege, a violation of the law. The Pentagon conceded that three Army personnel were in Waco on April 19 but only as observers and technical advisers...
...exhumation will pose for his $2 million suit for the wrongful imprisonment of his father. But after a 10-year fight to clear his father?s name, Sheppard and his lawyer figure they?ve got little to lose. Said attorney Terry Gilbert: "We feel it's going to confirm our case or not determine much of anything, frankly...
That insight might merely confirm that the Caltech astronomers have found an oddball quasar. Or it could herald the discovery of an entirely new and remarkable celestial object...