Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national goals--an admittedly difficult task. But as The Washington Post wrote in its April 1 editorial on Three Mile Island, such a reckoning of the "ethics of risk" must be the ultimate destination of the energy journey. If we are lucky. Three Mile Island will have set the process in motion...
...time on federal issues. At least two business groups--the Business Roundtable and the Business Council (both collections of select members of the Fortune 1000, a list of the largest companies in the nation)--require deButts and his fellow CEOs to remain personally involved in the political process...
...awkwardness of the CEO in the seat of government soon wears off, however. "When you become familiar with the process, you become willing to go down to Washington increasingly more," Adam says. "it's a confidence that's sort of self-feeding...I see a lot more enthusiasm within the organization (the Business Roundtable) in the last two years than I saw previously...
...Harvard at times seems authoritarian and unresponsive, Boston University is incomparably worse. Student publications have been censored and closed down, faculty members have been grossly underpaid, and the administration has been markedly uncooperative and intransigent throughout the bargaining process. The latest incident--which finally prompted the faculty to strike--was the trustees' refusal to ratify a contract that their own negotiators had already agreed upon...
Union members must ratify the agreement in a process that takes four to six weeks. "I'm sure that they'll be satisfied with this agreement," Fitzsimmons said...