Even a songwriting performer of Duke Ellington's stature and endurance saw his hit-smithing fizzle.

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Or, more commonly, the tune-smithing can be done directly by computers.

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Hidden in the cold legalese and legislative word-smithing is the following result: if a document could interfere with some sort of enforcement proceedings (very broadly defined by 5 U.S.C. 552 (c)), the agency does not simply deny the request for the document, but actually is instructed to act as if the document does not exist at all.

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