Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pledged to deliver majorities of their followers in support of the accord, it was a humiliating reminder of their powerlessness. For the frustrated voters who have watched for months as their elected representatives dithered and delayed real action on the nation's most harrowing domestic problem, it was further proof that shortsighted political self-interest is the strongest and most destructive force in Washington today...
...fact, Sachs points to both the positive andnegative effects of his plan as proof that shocktherapy really works. "I think that whenever youask what are the facts of the policy, you have toask what would have happened in the absence of thepolicy," he says...
During a parliamentary session last week, Deputy Sergei Byelozertsev declared that units from four divisions and two regiments of paratroops had moved into the Moscow area. "I want an explanation for why they were in uniform, armed with tear gas, bullet-proof clothing and weapons," he said. He also demanded to know why two divisions had been placed under KGB command. KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov called the Deputy's statement "groundless...
This courtly man doesn't stay depressed for long, though. He has seen too much. Life, to him, is an endless search, one long lesson. He is proof of the notion that every artist is a scientist, obsessed with discovering how things and people work. His eyes go electric as he skims the subjects of his forthcoming photography book. "I've got a real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then...
...jokes now about his youthful "indiscretions," presenting them as typical of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, he likes to say, was tried for inciting to riot before he entered a state legislature. He claims without proof that the late U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland was a Black Panther. Those people were associated with violence, whereas "my branch of the Klan was nonviolent...