Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first move to generate discussion, Rosovsky presented the Faculty in October 1974 a 22 - page letter on the present state of undergraduate education. Perhaps mindful of tradition, Rosovsky also labeled the document by the color of its binding, but with a practical twist, dubbing it "The Yellow Pages." The letter, which outlines principal flaws and hints at possible revisions in undergraduate education, also declares Rosovsky's intention to establish "one or more faculty committees that will share with me the task of seeking broadly satisfactory answers" to questions the dean raised in the letter...
...government's huge mistakes in the past." The drastic austerity plan, said Liberal Party Spokesman Richard Wainwright, was the price for "years of debauchery conducted on tick [credit]"-Britain's version of the installment plan. Though left-wing Laborites denounced the White Paper as a "document of shame," other party stalwarts were more sympathetic. "Mr. Healey had to act," said the mass-circulation Daily Mirror...
Besides settling the ad issue-at least to their own satisfaction-the A.B.A. delegates in an overwhelming voice vote finally endorsed the 1948 U.N. Convention on Genocide, which the Senate has long refused to ratify. Though the document clearly outlaws only an intentional effort to destroy an entire ethnic or racial group, Southern Democrats and isolationists worried that such charges might be brought unfairly against Americans. Key opponents to the convention in Washington were the A.B.A. and North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. With Ervin retired and the A.B.A. having reversed course, supporters of the convention now hope...
...firm, and requested that they be returned with an answer. More than half came back marked "no." Even the people who make copies no longer find it necessary always to read them first. Watergate Defendant Kenneth Parkinson successfully argued that he had hot read a particular incriminating document; he had merely Xeroxed it. The photocopier has made many Americans too lazy to copy documents by hand, to use carbon paper, to express something in their own words, to read -perhaps too lazy to think...
...institutional users of copiers could also replace their hares with tortoises; slower machines are generally cheaper to operate any way. To conserve paper - and trees - manufacturers could provide more recycled paper for their machines. And, of course, a little personal self-control would help; copying a marginally impor tant document does not diminish its superfluity one bit. And who really enjoys receiving Xeroxed Christmas greetings...