Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearing, as Willard looked on impassively, former Under Secretary of State George Ball assailed the directive as "an appalling document" and "an absurdity." Charged Ball: "This would require the establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything known in our national experience." Charles Rowe, editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, noted that the clearance rules will enable future officials to review the proposed public statements of earlier ones and protested, "If an Administration can censor the comments and criticism of its predecessors, the potential for political mischief is frightening...
...warned that CO2 concentrations could double by late in the 21st century, increasing global temperatures by as much as 7°. The rich, irrigated farming areas of California and the Texas Gulf would dry out, and agriculture would shift to the north. Like the EPA findings, the 496-page document called for more research to determine how best to cope with the changing conditions. The situation, it said, requires "caution, not panic...
Meanwhile, a myriad of former government employees, journalists, and constitutional experts condemned the measures as "an appalling document." Former Undersecretary of State George Ball testified that enforcement of the Reagan directive "would require the establishment of a censorship bureaucracy far larger than anything in our national experience." The American Society of Newspaper Editors denounced the policy as a "peacetime censorship of a scope unparalleled since the adoption of the Bill of Rights...
...fears that the intrusion of dates or some other indication of context will break the flow of the narrative, but his answer to the problem backfires, leaving the reader clueless as to how to interpret the mass of information given. Patton's collected work may well be a compelling document, but it cannot stand by itself as a "philosophy", in the absence of other data...
Charrier did not accept Harvard's offer for the collection, but did agree to lease the artifacts to the University while he continued negotiations with Harvard. The talks became complicated when Harvard lawyers asked Charrier for a legal document from the owner of the land he had excavated renouncing any claim to the Tunica collection. First Charrier refused to disclose the excavation site, claiming the landowner did not want it known he had allowed Charrier to open Indian graves. Later he admitted he had no such document...