Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were all given numbers that separated us into panels. When a jury was needed for a trial, they called one or more of the panels to go up to a courtroom. There would then be a selection process with questions designed to separate people who might not be able to serve on the jury of a trial and hear the evidence with an unbiased ear. I sat and read the newspaper for a long time before my panel was called, and my excitement began to build...
...Representative as you have been with the divestment movement on your campus, we wouldn't need to waste so much time on illegal, covert activities like the Iran-Contra deal. Golly, if you could convince Congress that taking a vote on important issues was harmful to the democratic process (like you did to your overseers last spring) I'd make you chief of staff...
According to Scheir, project residents feel that they have no influence over the political process...
...same time, Botha must prove to skittish white citizens at home that there is a payoff for his initiatives. Last August he pulled the South African Defense Force out of Angola. He has agreed to a Nov. 1 deadline to set in motion the long-delayed independence process for Namibia. Afrikaner skeptics are muttering that independence for "South West," as they call Namibia, will just bring another Marxist government to power on South Africa's borders. Botha is using coverage of his road-show triumphs to counteract angry charges of "surrender" from the right-wing Conservative Party, which threatens...
Nevertheless, during his reign, from 1969 to 1986, Rosenthal introduced a more compelling, interpretive magazine-style journalism and ushered in the weekly specialty sections (Science, Living, etc.) that soon became the standard for the industry. In the process, he transformed the respected but financially moribund Times into one of the world's most valuable media enterprises. How Rosenthal's editorial talent propelled him to the pinnacle of American journalism despite what many agree are serious personality flaws is the theme of Joseph Goulden's Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times (Lyle Stuart...