Word: documented
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...inevitable end of a protracted financial adventure." That was how State Controller Yitzhak Tunik, the government ombudsman, described Israel's bank- stock crash in a harsh report released last week. Tunik's 107-page document concerned the financial turmoil of October 1983, when investors sold off shares of Israel's major banks, forcing the government to shut down the Tel Aviv stock exchange for two weeks. By the time trading resumed, bank stocks had lost a third of their dollar value, and the government had pledged to buy the shares at precrash prices to keep investors from taking a beating...
During the prolonged question-and-answer period after the Secretary's afternoon speech at the Yenching Library, a self-described Tamilese man gave Perez de Cuellar a sealed document entreating him, the man said, to "stop the killing" of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government...
...Secretary of State George Shultz to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, outlined specific steps that Washington thinks Israel should take to restructure its faltering economy. Shultz warned that unless drastic reforms are implemented, Israeli requests for U.S. aid could be in jeopardy. While the text of the document was not released, a U.S. embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv acknowledged last week that "it was a strong letter...
...sure, much of what Reagan outlined could still be changed within Administration councils, although the President took the unusual step of warning Cabinet members that he had personally reviewed the document virtually line by line with its author, Budget Director David Stockman, and saw little need for the usual special pleas. The President's next step will be to incorporate the first-year provisions of his plan into a 1986 budget message, due for delivery to Congress early next year. The budget's fate will then be thrashed out in congressional hearings and committee meetings that will drag...
...moment of gentle orthodoxy in public school life, and here and there a child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this one child that our Constitution is concerned about--his tranquility, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation...