Word: documented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fragile Document. If, as many geologists suspect, there is oil and other mineral wealth in Antarctica, who owns it? In the first half of the century, seven nations claimed pie-like slices of Antarctica. Now, since the signing of the treaty, Antarctica is in effect international ground-like the moon-where military activity or nuclear testing are prohibited. But as Geologist Robert H. Rutford, head of NSF's office of polar programs, explains: "While the treaty has so far held up, it is at best a fragile document. The major test is sure to come on the resources issue...
...detective suffering a near-terminal case of sibling rivalry because Big Brother Sherlock is always getting the good cases, he becomes a pawn in one of the latter's non-stop games of mastermind with Professor Moriarty. This one has something to do with a stolen state document on which the fate of empire trembles...
...blackboard is covered with a second-grader's mistakes. When he conducts an auction of the purloined parchment, he is reduced to counting on his fingers as he tries to convert francs into pounds. Later Moriarty and DeLuise (playing a hammy opera singer) squabble over the document in a manner more appropriate to four-year-olds disputing possession of a pail in a sandpile-nose twisting, cheek pinching, hair pulling-than to grown-up spies...
Saunders submitted a document to the House Committee on International Relations that stressed the importance of the Palestinian question as "the heart of the conflict" in the Middle East. The Saunders paper raised the possibility of negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O. on the future of a Palestinian state if the P.L.O. would renounce terrorism and recognize Israel's right to exist...
...scenario and the quotes are from a research proposal approved by the CUHS several years ago. The document, after describing the methods of the study--designed to measure helping behavior-- explains why "debriefing (of subjects) will provide no useful purpose...