Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proof that the spectre of Vietnam still walks with the United States lies in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to Gulf War rhetoric, U.S. intervention in Iraq was supposed to have shown that the United States could and would fight for freedom and basic human rights. If this is true, how is it that a situation as blatantly unjust and horrifying as the massacre of more than 100,000 people in Bosnia has gone unanswered...
Demong, who called the Square "recession proof," said, "I think it's fair to say that Harvard Square is a terrific place to do business...
Cambridge School Superintendent Mary Lou McGrath responded that schools require proof of residence from all entering students, but families from communities outside Cambridge occasionally succeed in enrolling their children in the city's public schools by falsifying residency...
...sometimes, young men in war may commit rape in order to please their elders, their officers, and win a sort of father-to-son approval. The rape is proof of commitment to the unit's fierceness. A young man willing to do hideous things has subordinated his individual conscience in order to fuse with the uncompromising purposes of the group. A man seals his allegiance in atrocity...
True, but many Montgomery County voters are even more fed up with bad schools, murderous streets, pink slips and health-care nightmares. "People are willing to pay more as long as they understand where the money is going," says Dayton Mayor Richard Dixon, a Democrat. As proof, he notes that local voters have approved three tax increases...