Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, 41, a ranting segregationist who helped make the campaign one of the nation's dirtiest. Rockefeller, who gave Democratic Governor Orval Faubus a scare in the 1964 election, loosened up his campaign style, tightened up his party's fledgling apparatus, and let Jim Johnson undo himself. In the process, the nascent Arkansas G.O.P. elected its first Lieutenant Governor and its first U.S. Congressman in modern times...
...small office in Larsen Hall, cluttered with graphs, tapes and electronic equipment, H. Leslie Cramer seems more the mad scientist than the Ed School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...
...person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process to "delay" it for the sake of intelligibility and comprehension. Through experience, a pilot will hear a sentence on the left, say, slightly before he hears the same thing on the right. The reinforced tonal qualities will enable the pilot to understand instructions despite distracting noises. The delay itself...
...anti-war organization must also realize that our governing process is based on majority rule. This is not the only section of the nation in which their ideas have been presented, nor are they the only group dedicated to these principles. Yet, their viewpoint, though formidable, is still a definite minority. If this was not so, their opinions would now be controlling our foreign policy. The way to increase influence is not to force doctrines on people that prefer to devise their own political philosophies, or to heckle prominent statesmen, but to apply the tools of our democracy...
Chapman announced the creation of an elaborate two-committee play selection process, under which established Harvard drama groups could offer production plans to a student-faculty advisory committee. Final authority, however, was vested in the Faculty Committee on Drama...