Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...week that Iowa rewards "entrenched power," the Vice President was almost instantly on the phone to Eskew: "I want to talk about this today." From the stage of a school gym, Gore, who in his 1988 presidential race skipped Iowa entirely, extolled the virtues of the state's unusual process of picking a nominee. "Fighting for people is what the Iowa caucuses are all about," he thundered...
...They are no longer pro-bowl versions of high school oratory contests; increasingly, debates are the arena itself, where most of the winning and losing and living and dying of candidates takes place. His contempt for Gore just looked like bad manners, but his message that the whole ugly process of becoming President was beneath him just looked...
...Even the process of getting to the hospital in an ambulance has become more fraught. Consider the tragedy of Londell King, a 16-year-old straight-A student from Bridgeport, Conn., who was shot in the hip while standing on the street one March afternoon in 1997. Though an ambulance operated by American Medical Response arrived promptly, the EMTs on the scene allegedly didn't take King's vital signs or recognize his internal bleeding. They kicked him out of the ambulance and drove off, according to a lawsuit filed against AMR. Relatives took King to the hospital...
...adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right to appeal, a process that could take years...
Like its Middle Eastern equivalent, Northern Ireland's peace process is perennially in crisis. But Monday's secret report by the Canadian overseer of the arms-decommissioning process could be a decisive setback. General John De Chastelain is widely expected to find little progress toward IRA disarmament in his report to the governments of Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and that has the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party - the largest party in the territory's historic joint administration - once again threatening to walk out, a move that would collapse the Northern Ireland Assembly and restore direct rule from London. "Disarmament...