Word: proof
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Administrators acknowledge that Gates's appointment places the Afro-Am department at a crucial juncture. But student supporters of Afro-Am point to the department's troubled roots as proof that such difficult challenges will need to be addressed both persistently and passionately...
...military ban on gay men does not exempt them from reporting for physical exams, but those familiar with the process say that, with proof, gays can claim exemptions under a clause that disqualifies those with "disabling mental or physical condition...
...busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor of attendance at neighborhood schools. Single-race patterns of enrollment re- emerged in some neighborhoods; 11 of the city's 64 schools now have student bodies that are 90% or more black. Local civil rights leaders argued that the pattern was proof that the original desegregation program failed. School-board attorneys claimed that the racially unbalanced schools were the result of economic trends and patterns in housing, not of intentional segregation...
...other side, the Fund for Animals filed suit in federal court seeking an injunction against the hunt. The protesters contended that there was no proof that Yellowstone bison are a danger to livestock. The strain of brucellosis found in bison may not be virulent enough to pose a significant risk to domestic cattle. "They're making policy without data," charges biologist and bison researcher Jay Kirkpatrick. Says Pacelle: "If people want to graze cattle on the Yellowstone ecosystem, they need to assume some limited risk...
Part of it is a question of style. Contemporary peace activists might be naive and intellectually slovenly, but they are dissenters, and dissent is both sine qua non and proof positive of a functioning democracy...