Word: documention
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Unfortunately, reality is far different. The Constitution is sufficiently ambiguous that no two--much less nine--jurists could ever interpret it in exactly the same way. Everyone has a different opinion about what the document means, and those opinions hinge on the reader's political values. Thus, one justice might believe that the 14th Amendment protects only Blacks from discrimination, while another might argue that it protects all groups...
Gorbachev also tinkered with the timetable and scope of some of the proposed reforms to make the changes less jolting. The Aganbegyan document, along with copies of the complete Shatalin plan, the Ryzhkov proposals and materials on 120 alternative schemes considered by a separate study group led by Aganbegyan, were dispatched last week to the Soviet parliament and the parliaments of Russia and the other republics...
True enough, but the basis for the deployment of nearly 100,000 U.S. troops -- so far -- on Saudi territory is defined in a memorandum just three pages long. Not only is the document "extremely general," according to those who have read it, but it is being kept secret at the request of the Saudi government. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who negotiated it in Jidda last month, described it as a "sort of" status-of-forces agreement, something that usually takes the form of a treaty...
...Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, whose more conservative scheme for a gradual switch to a market economy -- to be achieved over a period of two years -- was rejected by parliament in June. According to rumors, Ryzhkov was so disappointed at being bypassed on the commission that he refused to sign the document that created...
...Massachusetts, Illinois, California, New York and Nevada, a total of eight suits brought by banks, trusts and other firms are now pending against Merrill Lynch because of its sale of Lomas investments, according to a court document...