Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 2 a committee of senior government officials from numerous agencies began sifting through the options and prepared a decision memorandum analyzing them for the President. In the margins of the document, which had fewer than 50 pages, Clinton scribbled, "Let's discuss" beside various options. White House sources say the decision was Clinton's alone, though he discussed it with Vice President Gore over their regular Thursday lunch in the President's dining room. Clinton chose option nine -- also known as "the efficiency option" -- which focused on watersheds as the basic building blocks of the , ecosystem and reflected...
...intelligence officials won't say how the CIA acquired the document, but the experts concluded it was dynamite. In the 21-page memorandum, judged to be a product of the French government, dozens of U.S. defense companies planning displays at the Paris Air Show in June were explicitly targeted for industrial spying. The document detailed precisely what the French were after -- ranging from General Electric's satellite technology to Lockheed Corp.'s Stealth materials. The French sniffed. One targeted firm, GM's Hughes Aircraft subsidiary, chose to pull out of Paris altogether. While President Clinton decided against barring American participation...
...Serbian artillery." Senators Bob Dole and George Mitchell agreed, as did 47 Congressmen and 12 State Department officials who took the unusual step of petitioning Secretary of State Warren Christopher to back the use of military force against the Serbs. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright sent a memorandum directly to the President in which she advocated air strikes...
...opthalmology, says that when he came to UHS in 1989, he successfully lobbied for the elimination of a $10 charge on all visits to the eye clinic. But this year, the UHS administration imposed a $20 fee for "routine eye examinations and contact lens evaluations/refittings," according to a memorandum written last fall by Thompson...
Furthermore, their methods of subversive communication are inconsistent with the ends they seek (an all-inclusive Undergraduate Council) and resemble hypocrisy rather than fruitful dialogue. To quote a recent memorandum distributed to all Council women, "Only female U.C. members are allowed to join us...to take part in continuing conversations about what kind of constructive action women can take to improve our role in the Undergraduate Council." If a similar memorandum were given to Council men, it would be labeled exclusionary and a manifestation of the so-called "Old Boys Network." Thus, certain Council women are practicing a certain type...