Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East. Last week, as the Carter Administration launched a major drive to make good on one of its most cherished foreign policy goals?a resumption of the Middle East peace conference in Geneva by year's end?the President produced some mighty big zigs and zags. In the process ?deliberately or not?he also caused the quickest, deepest chill in years between a U.S. Administration and the Israelis and American Jewry. By week's end the frost had melted?a little. More important, Israel, the U.S., the Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement...
...economy; expecting the inevitable, importers and exporters rushed container ship deliveries through the ports before the deadline. Although past dock strikes have frequently been ended by Taft-Hartley injunction, the Carter Administration has pledged to keep hands off for the moment to allow the free collective-bargaining process to work. If there is no quick settlement, the I.L.A. threatens to extend the strike to other types of vessels besides container ships. Oil tankers, which haul the nation's biggest import, would not be affected (no longshore labor is required to unload them), but the bulk carriers that haul grain...
...common operations, and one of the most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose its natural transparency and gradually become opaque...
...creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy to lose-especially for elderly or arthritic cataract patients who are practically sightless without their lenses...
...morning or his office at night. A small army of pushy reporters thrust long microphone rods into his face and asked the most impertinent questions, hoping to elicit an off-guard response. This is a drumhead trial, and few of those who are subjected to such a process escape unscathed. A print reporter who finds a rumor to be unfounded usually does not refer to it in print; but a television reporter's unverified insinuation, heard on-camera, lingers in the audience's ear. The scene recalls the notorious "ratissage," or rat hunt, of the French army...