Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women Religious in Silver Spring, Md., said that Malone's statement was "stronger than a lot we've been hearing," but doubted the role of women in the church would be a serious concern at the synod, since it is not a significant issue outside the West. Malone's document complained about poor communication between Rome and religious orders. It did not refer specifically, however, to the unsettled dispute between the Vatican and 24 U.S. sisters who last year signed a pro- choice newspaper advertisement on abortion. The Vatican has threatened to expel those sisters from their orders if they...
...cousin Roberto, 52, and uncle Aldo, 80, the previous chairman, comes as no surprise in a family fraught with feuds. Their suit alleges that Maurizio, 36, fraudulently obtained his late father Rodolfo's 50% interest in the company by arranging to have Rodolfo's signature forged on a shares document soon after the father died in May 1983. Maurizio succeeded Aldo as chairman last year and has spurred an internal reorganization of the company...
...equally significant and more emotional | issue of the hated pass laws, the presidential commission described these rules as discriminatory and "in conflict with basic human rights." It noted that the laws make criminals out of blacks who live in or near South Africa's cities but lack proper documentation, and estimated that arrests for such violations have been running between 200,000 and 300,000 a year. The panel recommended the abolition of the passbook system and the issuance of the same identity document to all South Africans, regardless of race. If Parliament takes up the recommendations in January...
...mounting over who owns the ship and about the quantity of treasure, including diamonds and other jewels, that may be on board. Commercial Union, a British insurance company descended from the original underwriters of the ship, may have some legal right to the booty, assuming that it can document having paid out a given amount in claims. Grimm maintains that because his expeditions had narrowed the search and his data was given to Ballard, he is at least partly responsible for the discovery. He plans to launch a salvage operation next summer. "I don't see any objection to diving...
...this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas Jefferson...