Word: processing
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...first hitch occurred when the state education department took a full six months after the new law was adopted to issue 12 pages of onerous rules and regulations governing Arkansas charter schools. Even at that pace, lobbyists for the state's school boards, administrators and teachers protested that the process was moving too quickly. The bureaucratic delay left Brothers and his allies barely three months to identify an appropriate school site, draw up policies for admissions, personnel and attendance, hold a public hearing and submit a detailed application to the state...
Priceline must now make its reverse-auction process work with items like gasoline, packaged groceries and credit cards. Such products are worth just as much tomorrow as they are today, giving suppliers little incentive to dump inventory by partnering with Priceline. "The Priceline dilemma, if they can't secure partnerships, becomes one of increasing costs to them and decreasing benefits to their consumer," says Sam Peltzman of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago...
...clumps, or plaques, of protein that showed up where nerve cells should have been and the tortured tangles that many of the neurons had become. But whether the plaques or the tangles triggered the illness or they were both just the most visible effects of some other, more obscure process no one could say for sure...
...create unpleasant odors, but plastic corks are as classy as Dixie cups. The solution? Zap 'em. Researchers recently discovered that a specially designed microwave oven will kill the offending organisms, leaving corks odorless. Don't try this at home, however. These ovens will be incorporated into the wine-production process...
NAUVOO, ILL. The Mormons are rebuilding their temple. Will the town be erased in the process...