Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman, things are getting out of hand. I assure you, Judge Reinhold, being the only man here wearing a bow-tie, I know what it means to feel like a clown. But let me remind you, these hearings are no circus. I have before me, Judge, a very damaging document. It is a letter sent to your home many years ago by your third grade teacher. She reports that you ate, in one sitting, an entire box of crayola crayons. Do you know that it is illegal to eat public property...
...individual cases than with the morality of the arguments which civil rights lawyers proffer in public. His argument is that Blacks need to define as sacred the American legal system and turn its courtrooms into a forum for Black religion to voice itself. In this way the Constitution, a document initially designed to protect slavery and since used to legitimize Black oppression, could be redefined as an instrument of liberation...
...document had only six lines of print, but for Texaco its price may run into the billions. The Texas Supreme Court refused to review a $10.5 billion judgment against the third largest U.S. oil firm. Now Texaco's only avenue of escape is the U.S. Supreme Court...
...allowing women to become deacons. After some behind-the-scenes lobbying, the final version mentioned none of those points. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, a U.S. spokesman on the issue, was reduced to expressing "happiness at the vagueness of the final statement," apparently suggesting that a more forthright document could have been worse. "The synod," he said, "was not ready to work out the differences between men and women, their specific tasks, and implementation according to local culture." The synod did insist upon the "dignity of women," but this was nothing more than Pope John Paul has already said...
...Senate investigating panel was reported to have voted to approve release of the document 9-2, with two of the panel's five Republicans voting...