Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...prove, of course, to have been a false message -- the Bush Administration may opt for a swift war after all. But now that a senior officer has made headlines with his reservations, the political risks of such a move have been multiplied. Should a mid-January offensive bring high casualties, President Bush would stand accused of sending U.S. soldiers into battle unprepared, something he has repeatedly promised the American people he will...
...mother-in-law was a Kuwaiti, that she was ill, and that I wanted to bring her out for medical treatment at 'home' in Qatar. There was nothing to say otherwise. I had nothing on me, and the truck was empty. I was the decoy, and no one could prove...
...especially repugnant way, Walesa's campaign smacked of darker impulses. During the first round of voting, Walesa boasted of being a "true Pole" with the "documents to prove it." It sounded like a sly dig at Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the target of whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground...
...continue shortsighted policies that squander natural resources. In Brazil the appointment by President Fernando Collor de Mello of outspoken conservationist Jose Lutzenberger as Secretary of the Environment raised hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...
...epidemiological studies, which find statistical associations between sets of data, do not prove cause and effect. Though there is a body of laboratory work showing that exposure to ELF fields can have biological effects on animal tissues, a mechanism by which those effects could lead to cancerous growths has never been found...