Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scant public attention. Instead of putting together a large single proposal, Congress has been nibbling at the global-warming issue piecemeal, with opponents throwing up obstacles at almost every turn in the form of directives and riders tacked on to major spending bills so they slip through the legislative process virtually unnoticed. This tactic has environmentalists, no slouches at publicity themselves, crying foul. "A lot of these [proposals] could never be moved in the light of day," says Greg Wetstone, a congressional watchdog for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
According to Lindy Hess, director of the course, the selection process was an informal one. "I asked members of this class to write down their favorite book and why they loved it," Hess said. "It is a good way to get a sense of who they are, by what books they like...
WASHINGTON--Just a year after former Harvard president Derek C. Bok co-wrote a book championing the use of race in the university admissions process, two Harvard professors have released a survey which they say shows students believe diversity has had a positive impact on their education...
...educational process that affected everyone pretty deeply," said Orfield, who is co-director of the Civil Rights Project, the Harvard institute that sponsored the survey...
...said all of the workers employed by Everett Decorators are ethnic minorities, as is the owner of the firm. And while Laughlin said the firm's owner benefited from preferences given to minorities in the contract bidding process, he said the benefits are not being passed on to minority workers...