Word: documented
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...paper work needed for a visa. Even a fully qualified applicant must stand in line for hours to acquire or submit the proper forms. The would-be immigrant must produce certificates of birth and marriage, of physical and mental health, of approval by his local police. Every foreign-language document must be translated into English by an officially certified translator, then notarized...
Whatever the difficulties, the flow is unceasing. A few statistics document the recent changes. A decade ago, Canada was still providing the largest number of immigrants, 38,327. Today, Mexico provides the most, 62,205. Second and third come the Philippines (31,751) and Korea (28,362), whereas in 1965 the 4,057 immigrants from Taiwan were the only Asian group among the largest 15. The U.K. and Germany, which used to rank three and four, now rank eleven and 16. (Among the smallest contingents, Monaco, Chad and Pitcairn Island, one each...
...Boston, after months of meditation and a week's work, Vincent Dimarzo and Alton Wilkins signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. The document was inscribed by the freelance painters on a cement mixer that stops traffic with its revolutions...
...conflicts with the now arrested Loyalist Governor William Franklin, last week adopted a new constitution that provides for a bicameral legislature to elect a relatively powerless Governor. Only 26 of the 65 legislators voted for the measure (30 abstained and 9 opposed), however, and even they insisted that the document would be null and void in case of a reconciliation with Britain...
...London-trained lawyer best known for his anti-Town-shend-taxes "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer." Though an opponent of American independence, the Pennsylvania conservative soon became the dominant influence on the 13-man drafting committee, which included hardly any radicals other than Samuel Adams of Massachusetts. The document therefore reflects the conservatives' basic desire to organize the 13 disparate colonies under a united national government that would assume the authority once held by London...