Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemingly legitimate documents shielding these shipments make the illegal trade difficult to detect. But the World Wildlife Fund has recently helped the U.S. Government computerize international export-import records and has begun matching them with census counts of endangered species. Stopping the illegal trade in the future may depend not only on catching poachers in the act but on following the document trail they leave behind. Says the fund's Linda McMahan: "It's not just a cloak-and-dagger operation any more. It's becoming a complex paper chase...
...four years, the five Democrats in the eight-member group took the agency to task. Its covert operations, they said, often deviate "from avowed standards, with substantial harm to individuals and public institutions." The three Republicans on the committee all dissented, however, calling the report "a slanted and biased document that is aimed at closing down an effective and almost indispensable tool" in the fight against organized crime and political corruption...
...observation . . . and a wild paranoia." Through the ten years of their romance, she tells friends of various humiliations: Wells ignores her, he suffers from fits of maniacal rage, he becomes childishly dependent. But the author says, "I cannot believe a word . . . they are inventions," and then goes on to document "what my father was doing in the real world, as opposed to that of my mother's fantasy...
...conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine to save his failing sports-car company. Weitzman questioned Tisa about the log he kept of the four-month investigation that culminated in De Lorean's arrest in October 1982. Some of the entries in the 28-page handwritten document were dated 1983. "I may have rewritten some of the entries in 1983," the agent explained. "And you destroyed the original?" Weitzman asked. "Yes," replied Tisa, "a portion of them...
Despite these strengths, however, the 15-page statement suffers from several significant oversights. The first is the report's reassertion of the college's intent to treat students as individuals rather than part of some (read minority) group. For this reason, the document states, "the College has steadfastly resisted the idea that academic issues should be addressed in a racial context." And later, "it has never been assumed that race is a determining characteristic that can or should govern one's experience in college, any more than sex or geographic back ground should...