Word: processes
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Iowa has held caucuses since 1917 because the process is "an effective tool for getting more participants into politics and building grassroots contituents," said John C. Cacciatore, financial director of the Iowa Democratic Party...
...course, in the time of Sophocles the pan-Hellenic games that would later inspire the international Olympics and the primitive direct democracy that would later inspire the American political process were relatively undeveloped forms. Neither synchronized swimming nor the advanced telecommunications equipment necessary to broadcast it around the world had been invented during the Golden Age of Athens, for example. Nor did the ancient Greeks have the advantage of televised minidebates. They were a primitive and unhappy people indeed...
Nevertheless, Rather beat out Mudd for the anchor job, rankling some TV traditionalists in the process. In an effort to keep him from jumping to ABC, CBS gave Rather a record $22 million ten-year contract, a quantum leap in the pay for network journalists. The network also had to ask Cronkite politely to move up his retirement date to accommodate Rather's new contract. Cronkite agreed, but some insiders claim he was never happy about...
...much as 200,000 gal. per day of insufficiently treated wastewater filled with cranberry juice, berry skins and other pollutants into the town's sewers and the Nemasket River from its plant in Middleborough, Mass. Town officials believe that the acidic effluent has killed the bacteria used to process the town's sewage at its treatment center. Ocean Spray, which could be hit with as much as $2.1 million in fines, says it has never endangered the environment and denies the charges...
HOWEVER, equally troubling issues would have emerged had a mere four congressmen switched their nay votes against Reagan's $43 million contra request. The Sandinistas, upon learning of the vote to extend contra aid, surely would have denounced it as sabotaging the peace process. More aid would have allowed them to continue hiding behind the screen that the contra war, and not their own pathetic fiscal mismanagement, is to blame for the searing poverty and economic woes that afflict the Nicaraguan people. The delicate peace accord would have collapsed, and the United States would have been accused by the international...