Word: documented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those that are most lightly taxed). Yet the Administration appeared astonishingly diffident toward its own initiative. President Reagan issued a written statement asserting that "at first glance" the Treasury plan appeared to fulfill his goals. But he stated that "all of us will need time to study the entire document. We are willing to listen to the comments and suggestions of all Americans and especially those from the Congress." Aides insisted that this tepid response was part of a calculated strategy to sniff out public sentiment before deciding how, and how rapidly, to proceed. In other words, the plan...
...criminal complaint against him cites one specific event: in the spring of 1975, Koecher stole and copied a four-page CIA document marked SECRET, wadded the copy inside an empty cigarette pack, then passed it to another Czech agent, possibly with Hana as the go-between. Among the documents Koecher allegedly pilfered and gave to the Czechs were lists of undercover CIA agents...
...newspaper receives must be reduced to the thousands it prints; hours of tape must be fitted to the time constraint of a half-hour news program. The bias, if there is one, is less apt to be in ideology than in choosing what will most interest the audience or document the thesis the journalist has found in the material...
...purpose of a college education was once to enlarge and illuminate one's life," declared William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, last week. But according to a toughly worded N.E.H. document just released over Bennett's signature, that high purpose is all but abandoned. The study, titled To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education, offers persuasive evidence that the humanities "have lost their central place in the undergraduate curriculum." At too many campuses, the report asserts, students are hustling through a "self-service cafeteria" of unrelated courses...
...arguments about the timing of the pastoral letter obfuscate the Bishops' message. Some critics have angrily accused the Catholic hierarchy of waiting until after the Presidential election to release a document implicitly critical of the Reagan Administration, thus sparing the President unnecessary political damage. On the contrary, the Bishops wisely embargoed their document until November 14. The delay insured that their letter would be received by a captive American audience, not one already caught up in the flurry of political debate surrounding a national referendum. More importantly, the Bishops realized, as everyone else did, that Ronald Reagan was returning...