Word: processing
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...other business, the Council discussed proposed regulatory requirements from the federal government that threaten to dramatically change the oversight process which Harvard imposes on researchers in all fields...
...have done it. He sends the same message (I love my wife) by his feeling talk about Laura and about the birth of his twin daughters. Presumably Oprah's huge female audience felt some sympathetic vibration on that score. The question is whether it does not demean the entire process to have all of this attention paid to the state of a candidate's marriage. We have Bill Clinton to thank for that - that, and a certain deepening fatuousness in the American political process...
...Public opinion polls serve private interests, paid for by corporate advertisers and media corporations. In fact, the commission itself is funded by companies like Anheuser-Busch and AT&T. With the debates so corporately controlled, the true democratic process hasn't a chance. But attention, debate sponsors: Debates involving candidates outside the two major parties earn significantly higher ratings than debates between the two major candidates...
...Voters in nearly every state will see at least four choices on their ballots, not two. To gain ballot status in most states, a candidate must be placed on the ballot by petitioning thousands of state voters. The process alone should be enough to earn a candidate the right to participate in the debates...
...fact that candidates like Nader and Buchanan have emerged indicates a shift in political attitudes yet unrecognized by either major candidate. Voters feel abandoned by the political process, as candidates promise campaign finance reform but take millions of dollars from private interests; while they argue about how the RATS got into their campaign commercials or how they can adopt each other's stance as their own. Many voters have simply become alienated from their own political process. Others are tired of waiting and have begun to work for and seek out their own choices. If the Debate Commission continues...