Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to read. There is a flavor of dejection and hopelessness that leaves a bitter aftertaste, rendering some of the stories painful to get through. While the heavy reliance on interviews give The Unknown City a realistic outlook, it presents astonishing racial and sexist stereotypes in the process. As Buffalo experienced a 21 percent jump in blue collar unemployment from 1960 to 1990, interviewees search for someone to blame and inevitably point their fingers at the wrong sources. We hear people attribute their own unemployment to minorities, welfare recipients, women entering the workforce--almost anything but de-industrialization...
...oral arguments in the matter starting June 26. Starr, who is seeking testimony from White House adviser Bruce Lindsey and three Secret Service employees, wanted the Supreme Court to skip over the appeals court and decide the matter before its summer recess. The court's refusal to hurry the process ensures that even if Starr wins the case, he will not be able to get testimony before the November election. Though he could still send Congress an interim report on his investigation before then, even House Republicans are hoping he won't. That would make it too easy for Democrats...
...Spouse Abuse in St. Petersburg, Fla., notes that "it seems to be coming down to younger and younger girls who feel that if they don't pair up with these guys, they'll have no position in their lives. They are pressured into lots of sexual activity." In this process of socialization, "no" is becoming less and less an option...
...conventional and nuclear power plants that produce our electricity are all controlled to some degree--usually a large degree--by computers, and some of the suspect programs are etched directly onto silicon chips, making them even harder to find and fix. Some utilities have only recently begun the process of ferreting out potentially weak links in their delivery systems. Worse, since most utilities are linked to one another in gridlike fashion, there could be a domino effect, turning local failures into regional blackouts...
...nuclear club, India has through its own actions put itself under obligation to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. It can now lead from a position of strength inside the club and persuade other members to save the planet from a nuclear holocaust. India can initiate the disarmament process by destroying some of its nuclear arsenal in the presence of other members of the club. This could galvanize world public opinion for total elimination of atomic weapons. SUDHANGSHU B. KARMAKAR Piscataway...