Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backed by 50 soldiers, the Israeli official marched into the second-story office of Ibrahim Tawil, the Arab mayor of the West Bank municipality of El-Bireh (pop. 25,000). He handed Tawil a formal document bearing ominous news: the mayor and his seven-man local council were fired. Tawil responded with a laconic "Thank you very much." After a few seconds of awkward silence, one of the soldiers ordered him to leave his office forthwith. Tawil, who had run the municipality since winning an Israeli-sponsored election in 1976, was immediately replaced by an Israeli lieutenant colonel...
...corporate annual report may not be an art form that generally inspires much beyond a nod, a wink and a yawn. But when Manufacturers Hanover Corp., the fourth largest financial services organization in the nation, issued its 1981 annual report two weeks ago, the document contained a surprising dividend. Preceding the usual page after page of income and balance-sheet statistics was a sprawling, sunnily optimistic tour d'horizon of America itself, and the author was none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since...
According to Robert Vare, one of the project's editors, a key objective was to bring a chuckle or two to businessmen because "people in the financial community need a laugh so badly " If anyone misses the joke, Hendra is planning a future parody of a document so familiar that it can be found in just about every hotel room in the country: Not the Bible, to be published by Ballantine Books this autumn...
BEFORE ANY NEW referendum takes place--and we hope it will--the constitution's framers should expunge one clause of the document, one which troubles us greatly. The clause allows two-thirds of the council to close its meetings to the public, the press, and even some of its members in the event of an "extraordinary circumstance...
...Faculty the "no" ballots cast last week by more than a voters actually secured the passage of the con- that threshold requirement left opponents of the to a tactical dilemma whether to abstain from voters more than half of the College joined them, or to against the document, and hope more than a third of likewise...