Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has always had a unique relationship with the state. Dating back almost to the first-colonial settlements, the University has been accorded privileges no other institution enjoys. The earliest version of the Massachusetts constitution protected, the Yard from state intrusion, and despite several attempts to amend the document the provision is still in effect...
...with Salvatore ['Sally Bugs'] Briguglio," a Mafia hitman slain by other mobsters in 1978. Briguglio was able to learn about low bids received by various city and state agencies in New Jersey, and allegedly passed the information to Donovan. Contended the informant, as reported in the committee document: "Briguglio received payoffs from Donovan for his assistance in obtaining the contracts...
Reflecting the restive national mood, the Experience and Future Group, an unofficial forum of intellectuals and liberal Communist Party members, sent a 67-page paper to General Wojciech Jaruzelski assessing military rule. Labeling martial law "an alien and unknown act in Polish traditions," the document called on the authorities to form a genuine partnership with society. Concluded the report: "After 100 days of martial law, it is evident that what happened between August 1980 and December 1981 cannot be erased from human memory and from the life of society." The newswalkers of Swidnik and millions of Poles like them seem...
...This document, though not solving all the problematic differences between the two churches, raised the prospect that ultimate reunification may be possible. If reunion could be achieved between Anglicans and Roman Catholics, the example would go far toward encouraging others to consider reunion possible in their cases as well...
...Republican leaders and a bipartisan coalition of moderates; one by staunch conservatives, two competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish that feat? An aide to Senate Republican chiefs had a simple answer: "They lie." Retorted an aide to the House G.O.R leaders: "Our numbers are no phonier than anyone else's." At this point...