Word: processes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, designed in part to decrease the power of the councillors, also would incorporate a system of proportional representation, in which citizens could vote for more than one candidate for councillor, opening up the election process...
Both the English and Comparative Literature Departments had to ratify Johnson's appointment, but she did not have to go through the arduous tenure process which precedes most lifetime appointments because she is already a senior member of Harvard's faculty...
...semantics of Arab-Israeli diplomacy, where "evenhanded" and "honest broker" have often meant quite the opposite, last week's curtain- raising U.S. initiative promised an overdue turn to reality. Secretary of State James Baker, in presenting the Bush Administration's first blueprint for the peace process, did not announce a shift in American policy. But he did offer no-frills clarity and a finely balanced call for concessions from both sides. In a sharp and wise departure from Reagan-era practice, his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the most influential pro-Israel lobby, eliminated...
...classically have to perform when their brains are trying to put them to sleep," observes Dr. Charles Czeisler of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They are fighting the internal clock." Many workers run on automatic pilot at that time; they execute routine tasks but are unable to process new information, like flashing red lights that signal danger...
...allegations against him, he insisted, "During my entire life, neither I nor my family has had or has a dacha of our own." But he also owned up to "major mistakes and serious miscalculations" in managing the economy. Above all, Gorbachev stressed his commitment to the democratic process. "We must respond to all the questions, even the painful ones...