Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Egypt's troops were all in place, facing some 30,000 Israeli troops across the border, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram began the process of face saving short of armed conflict. It announced that with its buildup Egypt had "reached its objectives" and felt "compelled at this stage to stop at what it has accomplished so far, even if this means that we wait to receive a blow from Israel...
...dogged were the birders that even the birds far at sea were under surveil lance. Nearly 100 members of California's Golden Gate Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black...
Scientists were enthralled, and non-scientists bewildered, as Lorenz eschewed descriptions of aggression in favor of a technical discussion of the learning process...
...compared this process to the action of a battery: "When the two systems of condenser and coil come together, they produce a totally new, oscillating system...
...Once the state has made by some orderly process a contrary decision to fight, then the integrity of the democratic process depends on our rallying behind that process even if we don't like...