Word: processes
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...helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base, Bush told his top advisers that he had made up his mind, but he refused to tell them who it was. The Vice President had decided on Quayle without ever questioning him face to face; Bush had faith in Kimmitt and the process. On the two-hour flight to New Orleans, Bush discussed the timing of the announcement with aides. There were rumbles from New Orleans that both the delegates and the press were growing restive over the now tedious game of "I've got a secret." Bush was particularly concerned about putting...
...Philistines' battered reputation is in the process of being repaired. The revisionist view is emerging from the dust of the ancient city of Ekron, 20 miles west of Jerusalem, where archaeologists are busy excavating what was probably the greatest of the five Philistine city-states. The big news from the site is that the Philistines, whatever may have been said about them, were in fact one of the most highly civilized peoples of their time. They were successful industrialists and merchants, skilled producers of pottery and metal tools, sophisticated architects and town planners. "While they existed," says Archaeologist Seymour Gitin...
Stewartt and Forestry Consultant Peter Morrison, working with the help of the Wilderness Society, have just nailed down what is either a very large bureaucratic fraud or a conveniently jumbled process of long-term fudging. Environmentalists had suspected for a long time that the Forest Service had vastly overestimated the amount of old growth -- virgin forest -- still left in the Northwest. Traditionally, the Forest Service has disapproved of messy, tangled old-growth forests, whose dank, rotting understory and ancient trees it has referred to as "overmature" and "decadent." It has preferred to clear-cut the old growth, and then treat...
...billed your selection process as a test of your competence and Executive abilities. Are you happy with the results...
Bush. Exactly. And I'm prepared to stand by that. I'm very happy with the process, but I'm not happy with the rumors and malicious charges that came out, with no evidence behind them. I would think a lot of people would pause before throwing out those charges they throw out in the form of questions. If you think it's fair to pass along or circulate rumors that prove to have no basis in fact, then I'm not sure that's sound, insightful journalism...