Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Petric called Josephson "one of those rare actors who can critically evaluate the process of his creation, [as well as being] a writer, a dramatist, and a director...
...Harvard Unemployment Law Project, which isalready in progress, trains student volunteers tospeak for people who feel they were firedunjustly. The students enter the process whenpeople appeal the results of administrativehearings conducted by Massachusetts Division ofEmployment Security, Mani said. "This program maypit an undergraduate student against ahigh-powered corporate attorney...
...more probable is a bartered nomination. That shorthand phrase describes an open and public preconvention bargaining process in which the surviving candidates feverishly try to assemble a majority by negotiating with blocs of unpledged or loosely committed delegates. It is politics on the model of a Middle Eastern suq, where almost anything is possible if the price is right...
Long before last week, political consultants concluded that negative ads often have more impact than positive ones. The negative ads in many 1986 Senate races were critical failures but ballot-box successes. According to Democratic Pollster Mark Mellman, studies show that people process negative information more thoroughly than positive statements. Media Consultant Robert Squier sees the New Hampshire ads as part of a general trend toward what could be called infomercials. "Any information," he says, "will be voraciously consumed by the voter...
...Such vital faculty responsibilities as the creation of new courses, the formation and substance of the concentrations and the developments of instructional approaches and modes seem to be addressed extensively at the department level without full understanding of the impact on other departments and programs. Moreover, the process and criteria for assigning faculty positions and fellowships, determining workload (or other conditions of employment), sabbatical policy and like matters seem to be unduly mysterious, leading to unhealthy suspicion and cynicism...