Word: processing
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...sculpture's unwieldy height would block the bayside view. Neighborhood groups, local high schools and businesses contributed to the overwhelming opposition, with additional concerns about kids climbing on or graffitiing the piece. More importantly, local community groups were outraged at having been snubbed and excluded from the decision-making process concerning the publicly visible land. Essaibi claims that UMass, when it was founded in the late '60s, signed a memo agreeing to discuss any exterior aesthetic changes of the public grounds with the community. "We became very defensive when we found out that there was a whole process going...
...helped the whole process go smoothly," he said...
...According to briefs filed Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the Bush team views their looming appearance before the Justices as nothing less than a test of the complete post-vote process. Their argument holds that if SCOTUS finds the Florida Supreme Court acted outside its jurisdiction in extending the recount tally deadline - that it does not, in their view, have the power to override preexisting election laws - the Court has simultaneously nullified Gore's contest of the Florida election results...
...name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature is free to jump in any time. If, however, one extends broader parameters to the "choice process" to accommodate the extended deadline, one could argue that whoever wins the recount is the winner of said process, and there...
...geopolitics. That much was clear earlier this year when the Russian president outflanked Washington among its own NATO allies in the diplomatic battle over U.S. plans for a missile defense system. Since then, he's managed, quite improbably, to revive a role for Moscow in the Middle East peace process, and has helped lead a growing number of European and Arab countries to loosen sanctions against Iraq in defiance of Washington's wishes. But Putin's most dramatic challenge yet to the U.S. comes Friday, when Russia unilaterally withdraws from an agreement brokered by Vice President Al Gore committing Moscow...