Word: processers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Campaign officials last week mapped out strategies laden with contingency plans, "what ifs" and "in the event thats." In a process in which the next move depends so much on what happened before, it is difficult, they say, to plan too far ahead. Therefore, some...
...Kennedy's strong stands on the strong issues will not win him many votes tomorrow. Kennedy, after all, voted in favor of Medicaid-funded abortions and wrote the bill on the Saturday Night specials. In the process, he earned the enmity of the nation's most powerful single-issue lobbies and now the big lobbies are funneling big money against him in revenge...
...Three years of experience in this office is inevitably going to pay off," says Jimmy Carter himself. He knows whom to consult on what within this country, which foreign leaders want to be led or consulted or pampered. "We know better how to use the public education process," he continues. And this skill has helped him to be increasingly persistent and consistent in policy. Carter feels that Congress now better comprehends the challenges. "The leaks are down," he says-no small aid in national security planning. That yields a freedom of thought and discussion backstage that steadies policy. The support...
...jungle in which Viet Cong guerrillas were thought to be hiding. An Army handout for one such mission, Operation Ranch Hand in 1966, assured the troops that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated. Some of them have never been allowed to return...
...nearly three months he met regularly and secretly with top executives at each of the three commercial networks, hearing their offers, learning their plans. The process involved quiet breakfasts in obscure restaurants, drinks and dinner in one suitor's apartment and marathon conversations in hotel rooms. "I find myself in a long final glide path," he said last week. "Three runways are stretched out before me. All three are beautiful. I could land on any one and be extremely happy...