Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unless something happens to shake the process and skew turnout, George Bush is our nominee. It's going to be real difficult for Bob Dole to overcome some of these numbers." That statement, by an uncommitted Republican strategist in last week's Washington Post, is a common appraisal of how the 1988 presidential election has unfolded...
...presidential preference poll, once a curious way of measuring public opinion, has in recent years become so essential to the electoral process that it now exerts a harmful influence upon how we choose our nation's leaders. Rather than reflecting public opinion, polls--by narrowing our choices--have begun to shape...
...they appear to be snagged at the Planning Board stage of the design review process, but their backers still express confidence that they will get permission to build...
...were also accompanied by dire predictions about the fate of peace in the region. But Republicans and Democrats agree that much will depend on Ortega's performance over the next few days. Two weeks ago, in an eleventh hour attempt to keep a five-month-old Central American peace process alive, Ortega offered several striking concessions, among them promises to lift Nicaragua's state of emergency and to hold direct talks with the guerrillas. Last week he moved to honor those pledges, restoring civil liberties, disbanding an unpopular ad hoc court system and inviting the rebels for face-to-face...
Some people thought that Clark's expurgations had gone too far. In a typically unilateral action, the pugnacious principal last month tossed out 66 "parasitic" students without due process or approval of the school board, insisting that they were "hoodlums, thugs and pathological deviants." The board blew the whistle, charging him with insubordination and threatening him with dismissal...