Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lampoon-sponsored film is setting out to document the life of Green, who started working at the Lampoon in 1930 as janitor and is now mentioned on the masthead of every issue of the group's infrequent, slightly humorous magazine...
Whistle blowers within the Administration were consistently squelched. When Martin Feldstein, the President's chief economic adviser in 1982-84, warned of the deficit dangers in the Administration's annual economic report, then Treasury Secretary Donald Regan told reporters they could "throw away" the document. Meanwhile, supply-siders like Economist Paul Craig Roberts, who was an Assistant Treasury Secretary during 1981 and 1982, kept minimizing the problem. Said he in 1984: "Deficits are on the way out." Later the Administration's budgeteers grew so wary of mentioning the prospect of new taxes that they started calling it the T word...
...founded in 1978, is one of fourindependent organizations that document humanrights violations and file petitions for therelease of prisoners, including those by thegovernment. Of these four, Tobin said the CDH isthe only group that criticizes the governmentpublicly. The group publishes a biannual book oftestimony about violations, and informs the mediaabout government violations...
...been of interest mostly to academics--in terms of the economy and national security, the report is likely to broaden the base of opposition to the Administration's information policies, say university officials. And by framing their argument in these politically pressing terms, Shattuck and Spence provide a document that may very well persuade congressmen to rescind the Administration's policy changes...
Given the fragmented nature of Israeli politics and the pivotal role of the four religious parties, it is highly unlikely that such a document could be enacted anytime soon. An alternative step might be a reform of the electoral system to allow for more stable parliamentary majorities and reduce the power of marginal parties. Labor politicians are urging such changes, though chances are that Israel will continue to muddle along with its current system. Yet some durable solution must be found if Israel, surrounded as it is by hostile powers, is not to become a house fatally divided against itself...