It can include oral testimony of witnesses, including experts on technical matters, documents, public records, objects, photographs and depositions (testimony under oath taken before trial).

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"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.

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"We were focusing our training almost exclusively on tactical or technical matters, " he told a forum at Washington's Howard University on Thursday.

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This disconnect recently attracted the attention of the Defense Science Board, a group of outside experts who advise the Pentagon on strategic and technical matters.

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C. based Climate Institute and concurrently a technical consultant on clean energy matters.

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The objective of the arrangement between IBM and the Asean Secretariat is to put in place a long-term program of collaboration in which IBM will serve as the technical adviser on information technology matters.

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Mr Kaplan is acknowledged as the leading technical authority on Mahler's second symphony, consulted by many professional maestros on matters of detail.

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