Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This process has already begun. For Asians are acquiring a taste for the material advantages of Western life and developing a respect for the benefits of free enterprise. And along with this taste and this respect, they are beginning to realize that the old ways, which they call traditional but the West calls corrupt, are simply not good business...
Measured Toughness. In its victorious position of strength, Israel in fact is increasingly convinced that a quick settlement with the Arabs is not in Israeli interest. The way Israeli leaders see it, if the Arabs live with the fact of defeat for a while, in the process they may be forced to learn the arts of coexistence whether they like it or not. There is no question that the waiting game in the Middle East pinches Arab sandals badly-and it bothers the Israelis hardly...
...steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place on a near-atomic scale, and can be observed only with the aid of an electron microscope. The actual halting and filling in of a crack, however, can sometimes be seen with the naked...
...problem, Fairbank writes, is the American reliance on negotiations and legal procedures. "We feel," Fairbank writes, "that negotiation is a legal process in which the rights of both sides may be respected and a mutual agreement arrived...
Israel has changed. No longer are the Israelis an unorganized horde of European refugees who hope that the world won't notice if they eke out a meager living on a few square miles of sand somewhere in the Middle East. Ben Gurion successfully described the process of assimilating the diverse Jewish populations which came to live in Israel when he said, "It's not like a melting pot, it's more like a pressure-cooker." Visiting Israel, one can not help but experience the feeling of excitement and confidence which fills its streets today...