Word: documents
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...Spear's document became the basis for an exemption attached to conservation legislation in Congress that allowed development of Mt. Graham...
...Undergraduate Council last night endorsed a report showing that a majority of students support complete University divestment from South Africa-related stock, despite charges that the document was being used as a "propaganda leaflet...
...first major test of George Bush's civil rights commitment reached the Oval Office last week in the form of a 30-page document. The Civil Rights Act of 1990 -- passed last week by overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress -- seeks to strengthen protections against discrimination in the workplace, making it easier for minorities and women to prove civil rights violations against employers. But Bush is threatening to veto...
...take-no-prisoners document designed to embarrass Republicans, and some Senate Democrats would have loved to embrace it. But George Bush, burdened by his many flip-flops, promised to veto any such bill. White House officials privately conceded that the veto threat was mostly bluff: Bush could not afford to shut down the government again. Still the gambit worked on Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell, who joined his G.O.P. counterpart, Robert Dole, to fight off amendments from left and right...
...UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship, though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial underpinnings of life -- tradition, community and work -- that give suffering a meaning. Through...