Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien, who made his name as an astute political strategist and for the past 17 months has been one of the most progress-minded Postmasters General in history, last week put progress above politics by urging that his department be reorganized from top to mail drop. In the process, he proposed the abolition...
...Offers. Naturally, the sanctions have proved no deterrent whatever to Smith's white-supremacist policies. With the nearly unanimous backing of his fellow whites, his government is in the process of writing a new constitution that is expected to reduce the importance of or even eliminate the 15 Deputies now elected to Parliament by Rhodesia's blacks. Smith is also promoting a "Community Development Program," under which taxes paid by whites will go to the development of the white community, and taxes paid by blacks-whose earning power is onetenth that of the whites-will be spent...
...great drawback in the use of L-asparaginase is its scarcity. If all Texas were turned into a giant guinea-pig farm, the yield would suffice for only a few patients. The break came in 1963, when researchers at the University of Delaware described an immensely complicated process for extracting the enzyme from colon bacilli, Escherichia coli. These bacteria were already being grown in vats to provide other substances used by biochemists, and New Jersey's Worthington Biochemical Corp, set about extracting L-asparaginase from them. It takes pounds of the microscopic bacteria, and would cost close...
There is no indication, however, that the study will lead to any major reorganization within the State Department. Though Schelling's duties are still being defined, it is clear that the Department is most interested in revamping its budgetary process...
Another way would be to observe the traces of methane in the earth's atmosphere, Sagan said. This would puzzle them, for it cannot be explained by any ordinary process. In fact, it is largely due to emanations from the wombs of cows...