Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, which has dragged on for over 40 days, is the first step in the process of adjudicating the Indians' claim to 11,000 acres in Mashpee land appraised at $30 million. If the judge, Walter F. Skinner, decides on January 20 to dismiss the case, the Indians face a long series of appeals that will further exacerbate the tension between the whites and the Indians in Mashpee. The Indians' lawyers insist the jury's decision is so illogical that the judge will have no recourse but to order a new trial; the defense lawyers jubilantly term the decision...
...appealing to white American notions of what constitutes a governing body. He cited the lack of an internal court system, ignoring the fact that the Indians have less institutionalized ways of enforcing community morals. In questioning one witness about the tribal meetings, St. Clair focused on the decision-making process. He asked the witness if the tribal chief made a decision or whether the meeting as a whole voted. The witness hesitated, at a loss to explain an Indian preference for consensual decision-making in the context of St. Clair's questions...
...Doctors must learn that the life process shows a gradual linear decline from age 30 onwards and that a 30-year-old having a heart attack must be treated differently than a very old person having a heart attack," said Rowe...
...added that while some House residents have felt South House has not been getting a "fair shake" in the College, House residents consulted in the selection process thought Wacker would improve that situation...
...breaking free from old patterns of custom, expectation, even divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...