Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central question is how much indignity a person a person is willing to undergo to avoid Canada, the army, or jail. "I knew a person who after months and months succeeded in getting a 1-Y deferment for homosexuality but in the process just about ruined his life," says Hunt. An individual can move in with a welfare mother to get a III-A dependency deferment...
...seems that two of the qualifications for an evolutionary scientist are a credulity as vast as the millions of years required for the process and a monumental ability to keep a straight face while propounding the theory...
...stinging humiliation of the Pueblo incident. They succeeded in demonstrating that, despite nearly three years of steady allied progress in the war, Communist commandos can still strike at will virtually anywhere in the country. Though the smoke must clear before any realistic assessment can be made, the slow process of pacification has probably suffered a major setback on two fronts. The promise of security in a hamlet may not seem so credible to a peasant who has learned that even Saigon and the U.S. embassy are not enemy-proof. And, amid the furor in the cities, no one yet knows...
...cold. Frostbite is a constant hazard, and flashlight batteries freeze into uselessness after ten minutes of exposure. Men returning from the crash site must be checked for radiation, have their garments vacuumed and their noses swabbed with cotton dabbed in alcohol-all part of the decontamination process...
Leahy said in an interview last fall that he saw two main arguments against effort-reporting: the pettiness of the method of accounting to the government, and the arbitrary process of deciding who must file reports. (Scientists holding contracts--as opposed to grants--from the government need not file reports...