Word: processes
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...obtaining their own government's permission to emigrate. Now thousands of would-be refugees who have been granted precious exit documents are facing an unexpected obstacle. Last week the U.S. embassy in Moscow announced that it has exhausted its entire 1988 budget for resettling Soviets and would process no more refugee visas until...
Indeed, Dukakis' instincts on foreign policy reflect his political instincts in general. Above all, he is a straight arrow, a good-government reformer whose idealism on occasion comes perilously close to prissiness. He has always been a believer in process more than in ideology, of playing by the proper procedures. Soon after he first arrived in the Massachusetts statehouse, this outlook came crashing into reality: it took a resounding electoral defeat to turn him into a pragmatic politician. When it comes to dealing with the messy and murky challenges of the real world, he cannot count on getting such...
Much of the credit for the turnabout goes to Cardenas. A former P.R.I. governor, he was expelled from the party last fall after he challenged the process of selecting the presidential candidate. Embraced by four leftist parties, Cardenas, 54, the son of a revered former President, began touring the countryside in a donated van. As he spread his heavily nationalist message ) and hinted that he favored suspending interest payments on Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt, peasants, students, intellectuals and members of the middle class rallied to his banner...
Despite the large number of contenders, the Governor is intent on keeping the process sober and thorough. There will be no Mondale-like press conferences at the end of the driveway; no skeletons left in the closet, as with McGovern's selection of Senator Thomas Eagleton; and no leaks. Aspirants have been asked to turn over everything but dental records to a claque of half a dozen aides who pore over the documents in isolation two floors above campaign headquarters in a red brick building on the fringe of Boston's Combat Zone. They are called the Manhattan Project...
...regional office [of the NLRB] is saying they could send the case on to Washington," said Taylor, who is special assistant to the vice president for administration. "If that's the case, it could be a lengthy process...