Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency-or his career. In his annual State of the Union address to Congress this week, Ford hoped to do much more than assess America's strengths and weaknesses and outline his legislative program for the coming year. The speech was designed as a campaign platform, a document that would help overcome his image as an indecisive leader. It was also crafted to help Ford in his neck-and-neck race with conservative Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination...
None of this would have been worth reporting except for the document Ralph slipped into my pocket before slinking off. "It's a transcript," he said. "From Hall's office tape recorder--the conversation happened last October, I think...
...person whose inheritance consists of farmland and animals or the building and equipment of a laundry, clothing store or restaurant. Even so, the widely held belief that estate taxes have mightily contributed to the decline of the family farm is difficult to prove: few if any statistics exist to document it. That is not likely to deter politicians of either party from harping on the belief as they pursue the farm vote this year...
Historians differ about just what set off the bloodletting: A scuffle over a brave's rifle, or perhaps a medicine man defiantly throwing some dirt in the air? But anyone reading Philos' document may hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...
...REPORT of the task force on College Life offers us very little with which to take issue. It is a disappointing document with very few new or bold suggestions. A few points, however, such as the recommendation that a "no-choice" system of pre-assigning freshmen to Houses be established and the suggestion that there be more credit for the performing arts, deserve comment...