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Mr. Bush's military records should have contained paperwork explaining why he was allowed to leave the Guard early for Harvard, said David McGinnis, a retired brigadier general in the National Guard who was principal director of strategic plans and analysis in the office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs from 1993 to 1997.
When the officers approached, a worker on the premises gave them a binder that he said contained paperwork that explained why the crops that looked like marijuana were not marijuana, and why he thought the state and federal laws allowed him to grow it.
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In a recent interview, Serhiy V. Gorbatyuk, Ukraine's special prosecutor for high-level corruption cases, pointed to an open file on his desk containing paperwork for one of the shell companies, Milltown Corporate Services Ltd., which played a central role in the state's purchase of two oil derricks for $785 million, or about double what they were said to be worth.
Soeprapto's wife later remembered that Kutil and his men had "carried briefcases containing paperwork related to their cases... and even [Soeprapto's] children, without showing any vengeance".
Standing next to a lateral file in the planning office of Babylon's Town Hall, Mr. Casserly pulled open a drawer stuffed tight with files, all of which contained the paperwork on code violations for individual churches.
A lawyer for Trump had promised that the corporate structure would be changed "for the duration of his presidency" and posed in front of a table full of manila folders which the lawyer indicated contained the paperwork implementing the change.
The revelation – contained in paperwork from inside the Crown Prosecution Service – raises fundamental questions about the behaviour of Scotland Yard, which has claimed repeatedly that it found evidence of "only a handful" of people whose mobile phone messages had been intercepted by the News of the World's private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire.
Katherine M. Porter, a law professor at the University of Iowa and an authority on mortgage servicers, said it was likely that "a very large number — perhaps virtually all — securitized loans made in the boom period in the mid-2000s ," contained serious paperwork flaws, did not meet underwriting standards or have not been serviced properly in foreclosure proceedings.
Blodgett called Juliana, her sisters, and their mother into a sparsely furnished room, where she presented them with three packets containing the paperwork formalizing their asylum status.
The first batch of Reed's archives, containing his paperwork , photographs and record collection, were handed over in December, and are being sorted and cataloged in Queens.
Consular bags — special pouches that require a seal and can contain private paperwork , communications or other goods from the embassy, consulate or consul's residence — are not to be opened by the host nation.
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The phrase "contained paperwork" functions as a descriptive element , typically modifying a noun. It indicates that a certain collection of documents is physically present inside a specific object or within a defined scope. Ludwig AI confirms its grammatical correctness.
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