Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the intensive sparring, there was a palpable undercurrent of mutual respect. At one point Sullivan demanded to see a passage from prior testimony cited by Liman. "Fortunately," Liman said, smiling wryly as he reached for the document, "I am prepared." Sullivan smirked and shot back, "I knew you would be!" As the crowd tittered, Liman asked, "Can I read you something? Will you trust me to read this?" Replied Sullivan almost playfully: "If I did, I wouldn't admit it." In that moment it was clear that these adversaries, though locked in high-stakes combat, were enjoying the fight...
...contras. North went ahead and directed the diversion after each of three U.S. sales to the Iranians because Poindexter never told him that his proposals had been disapproved. He said he had "no recollection" of ever seeing Reagan's initials or check of approval on any returned document. He had shredded all but one of his copies and, incredibly, could not remember even looking to see if they bore approvals. It was the discovery on Nov. 22 of the one copy North had missed that hastened Meese's bombshell disclosure of the diversion three days later...
...deliberate departures from plant operating rules in an effort to coax more electricity from the nuclear-fired generators. One account accused the defendants of failing to notify those living near the plant of high radiation until 36 hours after the accident. Murmurs rippled through the audience when the document charged Anatoly Dyatlov, 57, deputy chief engineer at the time of the accident, with sending four workers to check the reactor hours after the disaster without warning them of the danger or providing them with protective clothing. The four later died of radiation poisoning...
...spanned the entire century, adding the late 18th century expansiveness of Blake and Wordsworth to the wary constraints of Pope. The century that began in the Age of Reason ended in the Age of Romanticism, and the Constitution accommodated that severe transition. If the basic text is an Enlightenment document, the Bill of Rights is a homage to Romantic thought, challenging not so much the specifics of the basic Constitution as its earnest sense of permanence. Amendments did not promise answers to sentimental wishes, but they did build in rooms for restlessness. Amendments promised more, and "more" is a Romantic...
...over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper . . . it belongs to literature." One would have to say that the Constitution qualifies, human minds having been teased for centuries with the possibility of making a government that would allow that mind to realize itself. The document shows other literary attributes as well: a grounding in the ideas of its time, economy of language, orderliness, symmetrical design, a strong, arresting lead sentence. Then, there's all that shapely ambiguity. Even those who have never read the document, enduring wars, debts, threats to health, privacy, equality, down...