Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERSONAL PORTFOLIO: Each student should be encouraged to put together a personal portfolio or dossier to include his permanent transcript and samples of his best work. The rationale for this proposal is that a student should be judged as a person and not as a collection of grades. If a student decided to apply for a position in a graduate school or a business establishment, he and his assessors would all benefit from a less impersonal presentation his accomplishments...
Those charges, brought by female prisoners in Rio de Janeiro, come from "Terror in Brazil," a 15,000-word dossier compiled by the American Committee for Information on Brazil. The document was endorsed by 34 concerned citizens, including Black Leader Ralph Abernathy and John Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary. According to the dossier, Brazil's military regime has resorted to a whole catalogue of horrors in its effort to root out dissidents...
...keeps dossiers on more than 1,000 Ford Motor executives, reaching down through seven layers of management; each dossier lists the man's history, evaluation by superior and estimate of promotion prospects. A calendar shows where each of 36 high executives will be every half-day for the next week. His memory for details and conversations is legendary. Ford Motor officers say that the chairman is forever reminding them if something they say does not tally with what they said three years earlier. Ford himself remarks: "My problem is, I'm told, that I get into too many details...
...sick-out" strikes, the Federal Aviation Administration investigated the controllers' attorney, F. Lee Bailey, and now claims-though no one at the FAA went so far as to talk to Bailey-that he is a lot sicker than the men he defended for staying home. In a dossier compiled for the FAA, Government psychiatrists labeled the famous criminal lawyer "dangerous" and "irresponsible." "He collects heads," said one. "He's a young rebel, a David. His role in life is to slay Goliaths." Bailey sprang to the counter-analysis. "General paranoia," he concluded. "If they said I was dangerous...
...National Assembly, which was in recess. For 80 hours, he held forth in the old Opera House, entertaining newsmen with Vietnamese beer, fruit and copies of his biography, and maintaining a steady anti-Thieu patter. "Did you hear?" Chau jeered at one point. "President Nixon has sent a dossier to the Senate asking for the lifting of Senator [George] McGovern's parliamentary immunity because he was in contact with the Communists in Paris." What did Chau think of his sentence? Thieu, he replied, "won't last 20 years-he's likely to last less than...