In 1989 Sir Tim submitted a rather impenetrable document to his superiors at CERN, entitled "Information Management: A Proposal", describing what would later become the web.
He also said that he would rewrite the annual Mayor's Management Report, a seemingly intentionally impenetrable document that outlines the administration's accomplishments.
The public disagreement reached a standoff, with both sides pointing to the same virtually impenetrable document -- Enron's highly technical contract with the trash agency -- as proof that the deal was entirely legal or patently illegal.
Visiting suspect sites around the country, she shares her frustrations at chasing what she calls "buildings without addresses, offices without floors, acronyms without explanation". Arkin is the kind of sleuth who mines impenetrable government documents to write directories of nuclear weapons, classified code names and much more.
The UCI rulebook is a somewhat impenetrable and daunting document but on issues of accepting anything but a bidon or spanner from another team, the rules are crystal clear.
Whether you want to make a drama or a comedy, a series or a serial, getting a show on-screen means mastering a seemingly impenetrable world of pitch documents, from step-outlines to show bibles.
Painstakingly, at snail's pace, the commission took one doctrinal difference after another, and every few years produced a document in impenetrable language that was supposed to have ironed it out.
The bureaucracy (and most people do work for the government in some capacity, whether it is town or city or region or state government) is impenetrable, and getting any document processed can take a lifetime and can mandate visiting many offices and many of the bureaucrats.
It also discourages patients from participating in public consultations, since the documents involved are so impenetrable.
So the next time you hear Sarah Palin and her ilk prattle on about gettin' government off our backs, think about my friend Eric, sitting in a hot office on a Friday evening in June, running one last analysis of the numbers, scanning one more pile of documents for a missing variable, reviewing one last impenetrable proposal before finally calling it a day.
