That is when the Justice Department's antitrust office in New York received a cache of memorandums and notes of meetings written by Mr. Davidge to Sir Anthony as well as a letter from Sir Anthony to Mr. Davidge, according to those involved in the inquiry.
Decisions will be made on the basis of the substance of the arrangement, rather than on its denomination as an international agreement, a memorandum of understanding, exchange of notes, exchange of letters, technical arrangement, protocol, note verbale, aide-memoire, agreed minute, or any other name.
The correspondence, lectures and speeches, unpublished and published manuscripts, biographical documents, and university policy memoranda of this noted University of Chicago economist.
The federal investigation began more than three years ago but it was thought to have been dormant until January when the Justice Department's antitrust office in New York received more than 100 pages of documents -- memorandums and notes of secret meetings that took place between Christopher M. Davidge, a former Christie's chief executive, and Diana D. Brooks, his counterpart at Sotheby's.
In 1961, the year before Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize, an F.B.I. interoffice memorandum made note of the contents of his novel "The Winter of Our Discontent".
But one aspect has become clear with the publication in recent years of memoranda, notes and instructions that Lenin issued as he struggled with the succession of cerebral strokes that eventually took his life.
A memorandum from November 1971 notes that Mr. Kerry told students at the University of Oklahoma that members of the veterans' group "are against any type of violence".
The new head of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and its current chief financial officer, as well as the chairman ousted last week, were advised of huge shortfalls in proven oil and natural gas reserves in 2002, two years before they were publicly disclosed, according to company memorandums and notes of executive discussions.
The new head of the Royal/Dutch Shell Group and its current chief financial officer, as well as the chairman ousted last week, were advised of huge shortfalls in proven oil and natural gas reserves in 2002, two years before they were publicly disclosed, according to company memorandums and notes of executive discussions.
They have pointed to the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, noting the memorandum of understanding says "there will be no requirement for labour market testing" to enter into an investment facilitation arrangement (IFA).
While at RAND, George wrote a long series of research memoranda entitled "Notes on Linear Programming", which ultimately became material for his classic text/reference Linear Programming and Extensions.
