Word: processing
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...doing so, the University has added months to the construction process of the building, which is already quickly approaching its third year. Even so, this change of plans will at least symbolically mend relations between Cambridge citizens and the University. Harvard's willingness to negotiate with its town about the Knafel Center-rather than strut to city hall with its $19 billion endowment in tow-will hopefully open an era of negotiation and dialogue between the city and the University...
Previous forays into the political process have proved disastrous. The campaign-finance scandals of the past few years have smothered Asian contributions and hence influence. John Huang, a Democratic fund raiser, pleaded guilty to conspiring to break campaign-finance laws; Johnny Chung, a California businessman (also represented by Lee's lawyer Sun), pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. Even public service was seen as dangerous territory. Clinton appointee Hoyt Zia, chief counsel for the Bureau of Export Administration, faced conservative challenges to his loyalty as an American before he left the post. Says his sister Helen Zia, author...
...help. Meanwhile, Dr. Sydney Spiesel, a researcher at Yale, is developing a "nit detector"--a shampoo containing Blankophor, which he says will adhere to the lice and nits and make them visible under ultraviolet light. He plans to market the shampoo and a black light together, making the nitpicking process "Fun!" he says...
...were going through divorce in l971 in affluent Marin County, Calif. Wallerstein looks for evidence that divorce harms kids, and of course she finds it--now well into their mid-30s, her interviewees still blame their parents' breakup for every rock on the path to fulfillment--but the very process of participating in a famous on-going study about the effects of divorce encourages them to see their lives through that lens. What if she had spent as much time studying children whose parents had terrible marriages but stayed together for the kids? How many 35-year-old "children" would...
...FATF report epitomized the tough new stance being adopted by industrial nations to stamp out money laundering, the process of taking illegally obtained funds such as drug money and making them appear to come from legitimate business. Pressure has focused on tax havens because they attract money fleeing tax collectors and often employ bank-secrecy rules that make it hard to identify illegal cash. Money hidden from tax collectors is considered illegal in many countries, but not in places like Liechtenstein...