Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a federal court of appeals: an absolute privilege to refuse to answer any questions about editorial thoughts or conversations. "Faced with such an inquiry," wrote Judge Irving Kaufman, "reporters and journalists would be reluctant to express their doubts. Indeed, they would be chilled in the very process of thought...
...majority opinion, Justice White did warn judges to be careful that the discovery process is not used for harassment or delay, in press cases or any others. Indeed, it may be that lengthy pretrial discovery, as Lando endured, is a much greater threat to freedom of the press than questioning a reporter's state of mind. Said Columbia Law School Professor Benno Schmidt: "Knowing that someone could tie you up for days in pretrial discovery at huge expense might be enough reason not to publish a story...
...weight with a majority on the high court-especially when it is balanced against a strong interest like a fair trial. Often jealous of their prerogatives, trial court judges are even less sympathetic. They tend to reject First Amendment claims that might get in the way of the judicial process, like subpoenaing a reporter to testify in a criminal case. Some judges also bar reporters from pretrial hearings in criminal cases, a practice the high court will rule on this spring...
Every degree will be a battle. Even under the best of circumstances, Operation Teakettle will take at least five days to lower the core temperature the final 28° C. But the NRC team is determined not to hurry the process with pumps or other heavy-duty machinery. All in all, the technicians at Three Mile Island are cautiously optimistic. But even after cooldown, their job will not be done. They must still purge the stricken and perhaps permanently wrecked plant of its overburden of frighteningly dangerous radioactivity, a process that could easily go on for months. Then they must figure...
...Chinese are assigned to work in these ventures to learn Western management methods. Now the Chinese are trying to draw both investment money and expertise directly into China. This could transform the Hong Kong economy in the next few decades. Hong Kong has embarked on a long, perhaps inexorable process of economic integration with China...