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My guess is that it distinguishes it from the more obvious commercial marketing pieces that are printed in lots of colors.
Mike Huber
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From: Paula Foster [SMTP:foster -dot- 242 -at- OSU -dot- EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 1997 3:07 PM
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Subject: "white papers"
So maybe the expression "white paper" got started as a temporal order thing,
but got fixed at some point, in some industries, to designate a particular
genre of document?
I dunno. FWIW!
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