Word: memoranda
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Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott describe in unprecedented detail, replete with private conversations and secret memoranda, three years of negotiations between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev -- talks that climaxed in the end of the cold war. No one has ever given as complete and compelling an account of the higher reaches of foreign policy -- particularly only a year after the events themselves have concluded...
...convincing, solidly constructed argument. Diamond relies on a hefty source base of FBI documents, some of which were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. University records and memoranda also bolster Diamond's argument. There are 62 pages of footnotes. The source base might have been strengthened with more interviews, but many of the main figures in the book have died...
...admits to being at least informally involved in the 1992 contest. The international relations expert said he has sent a few memoranda to the Clinton campaign...
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL is a mess. Some students sit in the hallway outside the dean's office instead of in their classes. Faculty members take pot shots at each other in widely distributed memoranda...
...overhead charges every two or three years. In the case of Stanford, however, the Office of Naval Research did not adequately check claims and receipts for fiscal years 1983 through 1988 and did not audit 1981-82 at all. Worse still, during that time it signed off on 125 "memoranda of understanding," formal agreements that exempted Stanford from accounting standards the government imposes at other schools...