Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mathias said he considered the selection process to be arbitrary. "I don't think it's right that a ten-minute interview with a grad student should decide my academic future," he added...
...brief review of the company's actions over the past 15 years suggests how well-deserved its reputation is. The National Labor Relations Act gives workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, and forbids employer interference in that process. It outlaws the discharge of or discrimination against union supporters; it forbids companies to intimidate workers or to encourage or discourage membership in a labor organization in any way. Since 1963, the company has been found guilty of violations of that law in 15 cases. The company unsuccessfully appealed eight cases to federal courts and three to the Supreme Court...
...corridor, Didion effectively uses these chorus-like chants and staccato phrases to amplify the thoughts Charlotte is trying to block. They are echoes of the past that climb up into the present. In much the same way that Marin uses revolutionary rhetoric a deny her past, Charlotte uses a process of selective remembering: it is unsurprising then that when that past encroaches on the present it crumbles both women...
...background for judging for quality of fare. Home economists never learned to cook in graduate school, and as teachers they carry the convenience food torch. (Everyone learned how to make doughnuts from refrigerator biscuit dough in Junior High.) Cookbook writers generally glean their material from their predecessors, in the process often introducing shortcuts which result in a poor subversion of the original classic. They also normally forget to give credit where credit is due--perhaps out of embarassment, for many of their chefs d'oeuvre were lifted directly from similar collections or, alternatively, from magazine advertisements...
...Hitler to Himmler is testified to by many, many people who were in a position to know." Among other things, Waite adds, it seems profoundly implausible that in the absolutist Third Reich, anyone but Hitler could have exercised the authority to murder more than 6 million people, in the process employing badly needed transport facilities and millions of work hours. Helmut Krausnick, director of Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, has concluded: "The extermination policy was decided upon by Hitler ... The unleashing of the terror rested on Hitler's explicit orders...