Word: processing
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...professional groups like the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), which is currently considering some revisions. According to John Osepchuk, who heads an IEEE panel, the crucial safety factors represent "more a question of practical judgment than science. That's why I argue that the standard-setting process should [be broadened to] include doctors, lawyers and everyone else," so that environmental, social and other concerns can be factored in as much as possible. Nonetheless, Osepchuk insists that the existing standards are "doubly, if not triply, conservative," meaning that they are highly cautious...
...president. Having on Thursday finally conceded what most observers have known since the end of last summer - that a final Israeli-Palestinian peace accord is unlikely during his tenure - Clinton went on to say that it'll be up to the Bush administration to keep the process going...
...President-elect Bush would be forgiven for taking issue with that interpretation. The incoming administration is more likely to see maintaining the peace process as primarily the responsibility of the Israelis and Palestinians themselves...
...February 6, they're choosing the old warhorse because they believe he'll drive a harder peace bargain, not because they want to return to war. Everything from international and domestic public opinion to the demographics of the region demands that Israel remain engaged in some sort of peace process. And on the Palestinian side, while public opinion has swung against the peace process, Arafat and the men around him know that letting go of the peace process altogether is an admission of defeat, which would inevitably see the mantle of Palestinian leadership wrenched from them by younger and more...
...just as much as both sides need to keep the process going, neither side can afford to bring it to a conclusion any time soon. The denouement scripted by Washington in these final weeks has failed to tempt either Arafat or Barak to commit to their roles because its basic propositions contained the seeds of domestic political doom for both men. And that appears to be the reality President Clinton has failed to grasp in his attempt to pass the peacemaker baton to President-elect Bush. Right now, both sides can commit to an open-ended process that helps them...