Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feuding erupted over portions of a 30-page document released by the nation's bishops that seemed at least to tolerate such instruction as a lesser evil. The hierarchy's 50-member administrative board argued that public education should stress the traditional Christian virtue of abstinence from sex apart from marriage, along with avoidance of intravenous drug use, as the best and morally correct method of containing the AIDS epidemic. But, it acknowledged, in a pluralistic society some people will simply not accept such strictures. Thus, said the bishops, accurate information about prophylactic devices "as a potential means of preventing...
...widely recognized as a genius. The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson, by Frank Rich with Lisa Aronson (Knopf; 323 pages; $75), shows why. The authors (respectively, the drama critic of the New York Times and the artist's widow) use photos and Aronson's vivid sketches and paintings to document the bulk of his more than 100 designs, including Broadway's The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies and Pacific Overtures. The authoritative text evokes the artist's crusty personality and analyzes his ability to make each project new and distinctive...
...document is a rarity because Einstein discarded most manuscripts after they were published. In this case, publication was delayed by World War I. In the meantime, Einstein put aside the work and began to incorporate its ideas into a general theory of relativity...
...epidemic. Even so, the 13-member commission, now led by retired Admiral James Watkins, produced a 25-page report that decried the lack of resources and information needed to combat AIDS . "It is the firm belief of the commission that there is much to be done," the document concluded. "Too much time has elapsed and too many people have become afflicted while questions remain unanswered...
...very title of the document is a mouthful -- Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. It runs to 169 single-spaced typewritten pages, with 17 articles and three annexes. Nearly every word has been haggled over for years. Some brackets in the text, indicating passages still in dispute, were finally removed only last week...