Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housing boom by causing savers to pull their money out of savings banks and savings and loan associations?the prime source of mortgage loans?and instead buy Treasury bills or bonds to get the higher interest rates that they offer. Some lenders fear that this process, known to economists by the jawbreaking name of "disintermediation," is already beginning...
...more than 125 million U.S. taxpayers. Alarmed at what seemed like another electronic-age assault on personal privacy, liberals and conservatives alike protested when the project was announced in 1975. Congress's Office of Technology Assessment denounced it as a "threat to the civil liberties, privacy and due process of taxpayers...
...manifesto as a mere "atmospheric disturbance," the East German official envoy in Bonn, Michael Kohl, declared that the Communists "retain their interest in a continued improvement of relations." Last week West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stated soothingly that he felt the East German leadership "intends to continue the process of relaxation of tensions." In fact, there are good reasons for both sides to pursue Ostpolitik, Germany's form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves $1.2 billion in loans from Bonn and exports to West Germany that totalled $939 million in the first half...
...like Sadat and Begin on camera probably inhibits too rude questioning of them. Or, since anchor people are no longer kept at the door or at the curbside but are invited in, deferred to and first-named by heads of state, they may feel themselves part of the diplomatic process, and may be fearful of derailing it. The imperial presidency and jet-age diplomacy are producing a matching elite of imperial commentators. For whatever reason, some hard questions go unpressed. Who, for example, demands of King Hussein whether he proposes to give Palestinians more democracy than he allows...
Second, the Admissions Committee is fully committed to the involvement of undergraduates in the recruitment process. Our experience has been that students are effective in identifying and encouraging talented high school students to apply and, upon admission, to come to Harvard/Radcliffe. Minority students have been extraordinarily helpful in recruiting minority high school students for the colleges and, contrary to Mr. Melnick's conclusions, their efforts have been held in highest regard by the Committee. --Robert P. Young...