Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantage in this country of sufficient faith, I would say barely sufficient faith, in the extraordinary group of men who put [the Constitution] together. You couldn't possibly do that now. It's inconceivable to me that you could have an American Constitutional convention today and approve a document as vague as that. People would say, "Hey, what do you mean here? Does that allow abortion...
...temptation to peek. Chairman William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided- missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report, Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched an investigation...
...responsibility for the company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy document...
...Salvador depended largely on Sandinista arms. One of the few pieces of hard evidence cited was the fact that a Nicaraguan customs officer had allowed an arms-carrying Volkswagen to cross into Honduras. The report, says MacMichael, whose CIA contract was not renewed in 1983, was "a laughable document...
...Biden went after Thomas for the latter's "natural law" approach to interpreting the Constitution, by which judges can invoke vague notions of eternal justice that pre-exist the written document. Yet in his opening remarks to Bork four years ago, Biden celebrated something that sounded like a liberal's version of "natural law" as the common man's reproach to Bork's literal reading of the Constitution. "As a child of God," said Biden, "I believe my rights are not derived from the Constitution . . . My rights are because I exist...