Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge pointed to "our failure to understand the revolutionary process abroad" as the most significant problem facing America. Citing Rockefeller's work for the United Nations and experience in Latin American affairs, he said the New York Governor was the only candidate capable of confronting this problem...
...manufacture and sell them. In any event, the traffic safety legislation of 1966 adopted a different perspective, and recently tremendous attention has been paid to the fault of the vehicles themselves not so much in initiating crashes, but in determining the injuries that do occur in the accident process. Yet this too can be a distorting process if it draws attention away from the driver altogether, for it can hardly be doubted that personal characteristics affect driving behavior and that for some portion of the driving population this is a determining factor...
...single most important secondary effect of the automobile, namely its impact on the American legal system. Even where the matter has been given attention, this has normally been directed only to the problem of the greatly increased number of personal injury cases which courts are required to process because of automobile accidents. However, at the present time, and given more or less recent developments in the behavioral sciences, two further questions must be asked...
...Have the staggering delays in the judicial process brought about by accident litigation caused a deterioration in confidence in the legal system on the part of the American public...
...this time possible to answer either of these questions. All that can be said for certain is that the courts are inundated with personal injury cases and that delays are growing--in one jurisdiction at least the judicial process for civil cases has come to a (temporary) halt...