Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past experience shows, Constantine is no champion of the democratic process. In fact, he was largely to blame for the military takeover. During the two years before the coup, he stubbornly refused to allow elections in Greece. He cooperated with the right-wing in setting up a series of puppet governments. When the constitution prevented him from postponing elections any longer, he appointed the rightist minority as the caretaker government to run the elections. During its previous tenure in government in 1961, this rightist party had flagrantly rigged the elections. Despite attempts at another manipulation this year, all indications were...
...this committee's stopping a project that has picked up its own momentum. And given her history of making decisions first and seeking student opinion afterward, one can only smile at the hunger strikers' suggestion that their committee become a "permanent" and "independent" part of Radcliffe's administrative process. Mrs. Bunting's repeated refrain at RGA meetings, that Radcliffe is run both by its students and administrators, has always been a deception. And always will...
...literature to political science, but mostly in engineering. More than 90% of the undergraduates at M.I.T., where 150 remote computer consoles are available, regularly use computers. Like the system at such other schools as Caltech, Dartmouth and Carnegie Tech, much of M.I.T.'s computer activity involves students' processing individual research data on the machines. At Texas A. & M., students drop their computer data at a window, walk half a block to find the answers waiting on a table-and find the process so pleasant that they dub these evening sessions "happy hours...
After spending seven years working for British newspapers, Pundit Michael Frayn is convinced that they are all suffering from a disease called entropy-the process by which things fall apart. Which is just what they do in this engaging novel set in the offices of a large London daily. No one on the staff has more than a passing concern for the interests of the paper. One staffer spends the day turning out scripts for the BBC; another writes syllabuses for grammar school courses; John Dyson, a department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn...
Although his duties had not yet been clearly defined, Schelling would have analyzed and recommended changes in the State's Department's budgetary process. The Department wanted to find better ways to relate program expenditures to foreign policy objectives...