Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Still hungry, I returned to my seat, which was behind some guy wearing a bullet-proof vest who kept yelling things I couldn't understand and throwing his arm spasmodically to the side. A crowd had gathered near my seat because Ernie (Mr. Baseball) Banks was visiting with the spectators. He's kind of a sad character now because all he does is greet people who come to watch...
...That a regulatory agency could not force companies to reduce the amount of benzene in the air breathed by workers if it merely believed, without proof, that this action would safeguard the workers' health. The ruling implied that regulators could not free a workplace of all risks to health and should not try. The vote...
...Edward J. King Saturday signed into law a bill repealing the University's exemption from city zoning. The bill, which carries enormous practical significance, also offers symbolic proof of Harvard's increasing impotence in its dealings with its neighbors...
...about this person," says a Vatican official. In Kateri's life there was much evidence of saintly living. She was stoned for becoming a Christian, and she seems to have lived out her life in total poverty and chastity. Though local tradition credits her with dozens of miracles, proof is lacking...
Writes Peters: "Memoranda and meetings are where the survival and make-believe principles merge. Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing, and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." Besides, if they actually did their jobs and, say, abolished poverty, they might then be out of a job. Bureaucrats show amazing energy, however, when it comes to protecting their turf against budget cutters. If ordered to trim, they invariably slash essential services so that howls of protest will force the cuts to be restored...