Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selected women for five of the 14 top-ranking jobs. Elsewhere, the record is much worse. HUD's Harris has included two women among the nine people she has selected so far. At Defense, women hold two of the 16 filled positions, and Interior is in the process of naming its first female...
...about the policies we intend to pursue." Some of the havoc created by this approach is simply the result of the new Administration's not having had time to explain and demonstrate its policies. Notes a Western diplomat in Moscow: "We're all certainly in the learning process...
...scorecard had separate sections for each of the 82 countries that receive U.S. aid. Each section listed reported violations of 13 fundamental rights recognized by the United Nations, including protection from personal violence, the right to a fair trial, due process of law and the freedoms of expression, religion, assembly, travel and association. Among the most frequent worldwide violations: lengthy imprisonment without trial, blanket security laws that allow governments to suspend civil liberties and curbs on free expression (the press in 52 of the countries works under the threat of government restriction). Incidents of torture often involving terrorists and dissidents...
Irwin Blye will never be mistaken for Philip Marlowe: he is handmaiden to the nation's lawyers, a shrewd middleman in America's judicial process. His assignments, almost always from attorneys, involve collecting evidence that is presentable and persuasive in court. The highest praise for the shamus comes from a lawyer feared in settlement circles as a "matrimonial bomber": "Irwin Blye puts things together. He knows the law." He also knows civil liberties and how to abuse them. To him information is power. His weapons are things like UCC-11 forms (for $3 you get everything on anyone...
...freshman's goal was to avoid the Quad, he'd do best to list those River Houses he thought would fill up latest in the assignment process, Collier said...