Word: documention
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Caught between his campaign promise not to raise taxes and a general aversion to political risk, George Bush unveiled his "transportation strategy" last week. The glossy 129-page document is long range and comprehensive, but it may not help many Americans get to work faster. Like the education strategy announced earlier this year, the transportation plan indicates that Bush is more adept at identifying the nation's problems than at solving them...
...East Slavs began settling in the dense forests in about A.D. 500, finally occupying an area from what is now Leningrad to Kiev. From their forests, they shipped furs and honey down the Dnieper to the imperial capital of Constantinople. In 862, according to a 12th century document known as the Primary Chronicle, there occurred a semi- legendary encounter when the quarreling Slavs sent a delegation to Scandinavia to negotiate with the Vikings, whom they called Varangians, specifically with a tribe known as the Rus. "Our whole land is great and rich, but there is no order in it," said...
...community? Gorbachev will have to decide whether he favors revising the present Union through legislation or dismantling the whole Soviet structure by writing a new constitution. He has taken for himself the chairmanship of the congress's Constitutional Commission and set a one-year deadline for drafting a new document. He told the Central Committee last month that the sooner decisions are made to define "the competence of the Union and that of republics," the sooner everyone will see "the enormous advantages of the new federation...
...This is an appropriate and important project for this library because the people who were involved in the founding of NOW are growing older, and now is a good time to document this information," said Patricia M. King, director of the Schlesinger Library...
...Open Skies concept point out that the agreement provides for a notification period of 16 hours, affording ample opportunity for the concealment of many kinds of mischief. But the proposal is viewed as a useful confidence-building device by all 23 nations involved. Negotiators hope to have a document ready for signing at a second foreign ministers' conference to be held May 12 in Budapest...