Word: documents
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...when the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted an extensive investigation of the industry. Among the committee's findings: 25% of pricey bottled waters, including such brands as Great Bear and Glacier Springs, come from the same sources as ordinary tap water; another 25% could not document the source of water at all; and 31% exceeded the allowable levels of microbiological contamination. The main problem, concluded the committee, was "inexcusably negligent" regulatory oversight...
...document claims that hundreds of POWS never returned...
...after the bones of the soldiers who did the real fighting have turned to dust. So it is likely to be -- and then some -- with the Vietnam War. Last week, for instance, on the eve of a crucial U.S. mission to Vietnam, a Harvard researcher disclosed parts of a document indicating that Hanoi has lied repeatedly about the number of American prisoners captured during the war. If the document proves to be accurate, its contents could destroy any chance of normalization between the U.S. and Vietnam in the foreseeable future...
...document purports to be a translation (from Vietnamese to Russian to English) of a report, dated September 1972, by North Vietnamese General Tran Van Quang. Unearthed last January by researcher Stephen J. Morris in the Communist Party archives in Moscow, the document asserts that Vietnam at that time was holding 1,205 American POWs. Quang said the Americans were in 11 prisons scattered around North Vietnam. The number of prisons had been increased from four to 11, he said, so that the POWs could be dispersed following a failed U.S. raid on the Son Tay prison in November...
...great fun of the day for secretaries is, of course, watching the office try to cope without them while they are on their long celebratory lunch. After watching your average boss break the copier, send an important document into fax limbo, crash the computer system and juggle twenty people on hold, it's easy to conclude that a Secretaries Week would lead to the shutdown of corporate America...