Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing says that Carter "has compromised the process of detente," while West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has complained that Carter "acts like a faith healer" and formulates "policy from the pulpit...
...hours after he returned home from an all-smiles meeting with the President in Washington, he approved the legalizing of three Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank (see box). Carter promptly endorsed a statement by Vance that the Israeli action created "an obstacle to the peacemaking process...
...could write the script, I could devise a way out of the dilemma. We don't feel any urgency about the normalization of relations with the People's Republic, although it is one of my goals. But in the process we certainly are interested in the peaceful lives of those who live on Taiwan, and we hope that those two goals are not incompatible...
...always, the eternal humbuggery of the English, used and overused by Shaw for comic relief and casual abuse. All of this might qualify him as a complete cynic or skeptic, except that he was a true child of the 19th century, with an ineradicable faith in the evolutionary process. Taking his text from Nietzsche - "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman" - Shaw found his equivalent for God in what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo...
...process, Schmandt-Besserat believes, evolved in four stages. In the first, which ran from about 8500 B.C.-the date of the oldest tokens found-to around 3500 B.C., the small (up to 5 cm., or 2 in., in diameter) cones, disks, spheres and pellets represented such commodities as sheep, jugs of oil, bread or clothing and were used by merchants and others in the Middle East to keep records. In the second stage, merchants shipping goods from one place to another began enclosing tokens in sealed clay balls known as bullae, which were broken open upon delivery so the shipment...