Word: processers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...shattered. The Russians care about the votes here because they are very image-conscious." For one Western ambassador, this had a measurable political significance. Said he: "In thinking of their next possible adventure, I believe what happened in Afghanistan will provide another ingredient in the Soviets' decision-making process...
...first week of the trial was devoted to selecting a panel of 56 jurors and alternates, a painstakingly slow process. By week's end 53 had been chosen. All had been required to answer 70 written inquiries about their education, employment, health-even their hobbies and reading habits. In court, Edwin J. Tomko, a member of the Justice Department's fraud section, asked each potential juror in a high-pitched voice whether he or she had seen or heard any accounts of the case, formed an opinion or read LaBelle's book This Too Shall Pass...
That much maligned figure, the party boss, is looking better and better these days. A growing number of politicians and political scientists would like to bring him back, smoke-filled room and all, to restore some order and rationality to the now chaotic presidential nominating process...
...McGovern-Fraser reforms of 1972, initiated by the Democrats and copied by the Republicans, were intended to open the process to a greater number of people, especially women, minorities and the young. But the new rules have made the selection by caucus so complicated that more and more states have substituted primaries. This year 37 are holding primaries, an expensive and enervating ordeal for candidates that is almost as burdensome as the presidency itself...
...process that has been evolving over the past ten years is just as wearisome for a jaded public. Thanks to increasing television exposure, the candidates become as familiar and predictable, if not as entertaining, as Mork and Archie. And how many canned speeches, straws in the wind, shifts in the polls, who's-up-who's-down, can an audience take before it tunes out? Many people are getting too bored to bother to vote at all. The primary turnout dropped from 39% of those of voting age in 1968 to 28% eight years later, and there...