Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Undergraduate Council last night endorsed a report showing that a majority of students support complete University divestment from South Africa-related stock, despite charges that the document was being used as a "propaganda leaflet...
...first major test of George Bush's civil rights commitment reached the Oval Office last week in the form of a 30-page document. The Civil Rights Act of 1990 -- passed last week by overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress -- seeks to strengthen protections against discrimination in the workplace, making it easier for minorities and women to prove civil rights violations against employers. But Bush is threatening to veto...
...take-no-prisoners document designed to embarrass Republicans, and some Senate Democrats would have loved to embrace it. But George Bush, burdened by his many flip-flops, promised to veto any such bill. White House officials privately conceded that the veto threat was mostly bluff: Bush could not afford to shut down the government again. Still the gambit worked on Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell, who joined his G.O.P. counterpart, Robert Dole, to fight off amendments from left and right...
According to one such document, Roger F. Martin, a former member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates S&Ls, told Senate investigators that Cranston called him at home late one night last spring and that DeConcini reached him the same way at 5:30 the next morning. Both had urged that Lincoln Savings be sold to an interested buyer rather than be shut down. Martin told the probers, "I have never, either before or since this incident, received a telephone call at home from any Senator or Representative regarding a board matter...
...leaks also seemed designed to ensnare Riegle. One document suggests that he benefited from two 1987 fund raisers arranged partly by Keating. Shortly afterward, the disclosures indicate, Riegle set up a meeting of the five Senators with regulators to press Keating's cause. The other two Senators / present, Ohio Democrat John Glenn and Arizona Republican John McCain, reportedly have been cleared of wrongdoing...