Neither WorldCom nor the securities commission would comment on the document request.

After pressing 1 to indicate that a document request is coming, enter the summary-sheet number, 510051.

David Runkel, a department spokesman, said document requests "have gone out to a number of colleges."

The huge increase in digital document requests is driven by researchers who would never have set foot in an archive before the Internet.

As a result of the briefing, he said, the commission staff filed document requests with the Pentagon for information about the program.

I responded to a document request that produced over 30,000 pages of documents.

Has the Clinton White House ever forthrightly complied with document requests?

Even so, editors familiar with the trend were surprised by the Alabama decision to channel all document requests through the governor's office.

The counsel's office routinely acted as the gatekeeper for such document requests in investigations into the Clinton administration.

The documents were amongst those subsequently released to O'Neill in response to a legal document request.