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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...
...historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could be any war. A vehicle for top-heavy symbolism, it serves the purpose of contrasting Francis's world-weary pacifism with his merchant father's greedy support of warfare. Zeffirelli uses the presence of militarism in the abstract to furnish crude social commentary as a companion-piece to the attention he lavishes on the generation gap, or on the contrast between organized religion and Christianity experienced according to the Gospels...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...