Word: processes
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Eventually, Hopkins left the firm and brought suit, contending that the promotion process had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits job discrimination. Pointing to the terms used to describe her in the written evaluations, she argued that she was a victim of sexual stereotyping by male partners who expected women to be sweet and conciliatory and who bridled at any departure from that image. "To be difficult to work with is somewhat in the eye of the beholder," she says. "We had difficult jobs...
...treat it as some sort of tennis game where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from error because it reaches its judgments through some mystical process that is beyond rational discourse, rather than an amalgam of individuals, each one fully capable of being right and being wrong...
After a series of interviews with experts on computers and computer security, it appears that the virus spread itself in a three-step process, which transformed an innocent computer into one that could infect others--like a chain-letter scheme run on the most advanced circuitry...
When the system managers, did arrive, they found that the virus program was written in a secret code so that they were not able to understand it. The process of decoding the program took hours of valuable time...
...lawyer, the author traveled around the country and did extensive research on the subject of anti-tobacco company legislation. He argues that the companies are guilty on two counts: they have so much money that they can extend the litigation process indefinitely, and they are uncooperative in providing information pertinent to the cases...