Word: documented
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...second Nuremberg may not be possible, but the U.N. is on a path that could lead to trials. The Security Council last October authorized a commission of legal experts from five countries to document war crimes in Yugoslavia. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the process thus begun would end by creating an appropriate court to judge the accused. The expert commission has already received 3,000 pages of testimony on war crimes in Bosnia from governments, aid organizations and individuals, mostly refugees. After analyzing the information, the experts will report to Boutros-Ghali...
...might have hoped, to stick in people's minds would be the Sunday ceremony in Moscow, where he and President Boris Yeltsin were to sign the most sweeping nuclear-weapons- reduction treaty ever concluded. The accord does not quite justify Yeltsin's description of it as "the document of the century." The collapse of the Soviet Union has greatly reduced the threat of nuclear annihilation, and the prime danger has shifted from missiles raining on Washington and Moscow to nuclear proliferation or the nuclear capability being built by states like North Korea and Iran. Still, the START II treaty will...
Well-trained by my mother, I went to UHS, equipped with a note: "Hello. I lost my voice, and would like an appointment as soon as possible." I went to University Hall to pick up a document, and brought a similar prewritten note...
...program also requires the university or corporation in question to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding." This document is a non-binding pledge to install, within a maximum of five years, "Green Lights" systems in all the U.S. workspaces owned by participating institutions...
...MOST PROMISING EXPERIMENTS IN THE treatment of Parkinson's disease involves the use of fetal-tissue transplants. At least 100 patients worldwide have had such tissue injected into their damaged brains. Now the first major published studies from teams that pioneered the technique document startling improvements in some patients. Following operations, Parkinson's sufferers who had trouble performing the most ordinary chores slowly became able to walk without falling, assume more care of themselves and even drive a car, according to three reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is not yet clear, however, whether the benefits...