Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
...course, long before the events of this past week, the Arias Plan was in serious jeopardy. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had made it clear in a speech that the Sandinistas would never open up the political process to include opposition parties...
...three years in Eliot, with the perennial angst and confusion regarding roommates and such, my roommates and I were comforted to know that someone was actually taking an interest in seeing that the assignment process was not entirely surrendered to the luck of the draw, and that when various roommates did not return from summer vacation for one reason or another, or when they did return unexpectedly, we were able to work things out so that every-one's needs could...
...program was effective in cutting down white intimidation of Blacks who wanted to exercise their constitutional right to vote. The result has been that Black Southerners are now the fastest growing voter population in the nation and are finally able to exercise some influence in the democratic process--which has been most notably demonstrated by the election of liberal Southern congressmen who shot down Judge Robert Bork's nomination and by Jesse Jackson's successful organizing efforts...
Increased registration has had a crucial impact in liberalizing the legislative process, as demonstrated by Congress' swift reversal of the Reagan veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act. Every Democrat in the Senate voted to overturn the veto, and only 10 out of the 250 Democrats in the House who voted opposed the bill. Such nearunanimity among Democrats in opposition of the President is completely unprecedented in the Reagan years, since most Southern conservatives unquestioningly follow the President's wishes. Their willingness to buck the President on this issue is testament to the increased influence of Black constituents...