Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they get a push from above...
Some companies, though, continue to produce reports elegant enough to grace the finest coffee tables. The Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm, whose profits jumped 32% last year, issued a 64-page document filled with pictures of historical artifacts and featuring a painting of Alexander Hamilton on the cover. But Wisconsin Securities, a Milwaukee investment firm, went one better. Along with its 30-page report, the company sent each of its 235 shareholders a 10-oz. can of ginger cookies made by one of the companies in which it has invested...
...agreement calls for a yearlong truce beginning May 28. During that time, the government will consider granting pardons to F.A.R.C. members who are wanted by the authorities for political crimes, bank robberies, kidnapings or violent acts committed "in combat." The document opens the door for land and political reforms, promises business loans to the guerrillas and guarantees educational and other benefits to facilitate their return to "normal public life...
...will without an attorney's help. The program poses questions in plain English (sample: "Do you wish to leave any part of your estate to your college?"), waits until the user types in the answers and then leads him through the process of drawing up the document. Written by a lawyer who specializes in wills, the program satisfies the probate requirements of every state except Louisiana, which has a legal system based on the ancient Napoleonic Code...
...last week insisted that a court order be obtained before they would comply with an 83-year-old woman's wish to be disconnected from the respirator that was keeping her alive and in pain. Nearly three years earlier, the woman had drawn up a "living will," a document that requested hospitals not to prolong her life by extraordinary measures. Because Arizona does not recognize such a will (15 states and the District of Columbia do), doctors did not want to take legal responsibility for her death...