Word: furnishes
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Supertestifier Ralph Nader challenged the panel to concentrate on forcing multinationals to divulge information on profit, safety and other policies, which they are not now required to furnish publicly anywhere. Such open accountings of their activities, charged Nader, would reveal that many "world-corps" dump mislabeled and dangerous goods in foreign outlets, seek out nations with low pollution standards for new sites on which to build plants and condone "snakepit" working conditions in the Third World...
...offers to furnish summaries of the desired conversations. The committee demands the tapes. The President declines again. The committee issues a subpoena for specific conversations. Nixon declines to honor the subpoena. The Ervin committee, by majority vote, cites the Secret Service officer who is now custodian of the tapes for contempt of Congress. Also, needing only a majority vote to do so, the full Senate confirms this citation...
This section is intended to furnish departments with housekeeping authority and it cannot be construed to authorize executive department heads to determine whether papers and records are privileged or bar demand for production of evidence found not privileged...
...other words, the evident purpose of Congress was to furnish each department with the authority to regulate the conduct of its officers and employees in order to allow for the centralization of decision-making within the department itself...
Angry Retort. A few hectic hours later, the Quai d'Orsay dismissed the charge, insisting that Eban had failed to furnish "any document or any proof." The Israelis angrily retorted that Eban had given Hure "exact, precise, detailed and well-founded information," and awaited a formal reply. At week's end the French had yet to make any further comment...