Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal is a clear attempt to stave off the union's momentum. Labor experts say that an appeal would drag out the process for at least a year; a delay this long would inevitably demoralize workers who have been expecting representation and contract negotiation. Awareness of union issues dropped in the five months between the election and the first appeal, and a longer delay could only discourage worker participation. The University could lose the appeal, but still...
Operating well out of the public eye and, at least for a time, beyond Washington's view as well, technicians running an aging reactor at the Savannah River plant near Aiken, S.C., made errors in 1970 leading to the partial melting of a fuel rod. If the process had not been checked, it could eventually have led to a disaster on the order of the 1979 debacle at Three Mile Island. That frightening episode jolted the entire nation and inspired sharp reforms in the U.S. civilian nuclear power industry...
Like the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is one of those Government agencies that everyone loves to hate. Pharmaceutical companies lament the profits they might be making if only the drug-approval process did not take so long. Desperately ill people accuse the agency of denying them experimental drugs that might offer hope for survival...
...methods or the results did not meet FDA requirements, pharmaceutical companies had to perform more testing, sometimes starting all over again. Now manufacturers may ask for the FDA's guidance from the very beginning. "Up until this point, we've been the baseball umpire at the end of the process," explains FDA commissioner Frank Young. "What this new process offers is that we'll also be the catcher, giving early signals whether the research is leading to something...
...union aimed much of its rhetoric at President Bok--who as a law professor helped author a number of pro-labor books. In the process, a number of articles in the national press were written about Bok and his apparent switch on the issue of organized labor...