Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...beginning of the Capital Campaign, an 18-month planning process outlined likely destinations for the incoming billions...
...people allied with the boy's family." It emerged Tuesday that a political activist who has acted as a spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives had also served as a political adviser to Judge Rodriguez during her 1998 election campaign. While Reno's decision starts the courtroom process higher up the judicial chain, the case could still potentially go all the way to the Supreme Court before Elian's fate is settled. "But this takes it out of the hands of a state court system where a judge potentially sympathetic to the Miami relatives could tie up the case...
...civilian employee at Utah's Tooele chemical weapons plant, who appeared Tuesday at the National Press Club, claiming he was forced by Army officials to falsify environmental records during the course of his work in order to hide health and safety flaws in the plant's weapons-incineration process. Harris says he reported problems to his superiors, who instructed him to keep the information to himself, on pain of losing his job; he has since voluntarily resigned from his post...
...20th century, have two major problems: Their manufacturing cost is held hostage by crude oil prices, and, because they're not easy to break down chemically, they can linger in landfills for decades. PLA solves both problems, and is as durable as petroleum-based plastics. The complex process that creates the new plastic involves feeding the crops to microbes, similar to the way yogurt is curdled. The result has been compared to the polyester frequently used in plastic soda bottles, carpeting and wrinkle-free clothes, and clothing manufacturers are already salivating over the money-saving prospect of mixing cheaper plastics...
...rights," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. And Arizona's Republican power structure isn't too pleased about it either; Arizona's governor, along with John McCain and local officials, fought against Clinton's planned "unilateral" move, encouraging the President to include Arizona voters in the decision-making process...