Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adjustment. While a few companies-Ford is one-employ their own in-house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...
Coperthwaite sees his interest in yurts as a natural outgrowth of his desire to develop low-cost housing and his belief that people should learn to work with their hands. "People don't usually get the pleasure of making their own food, clothing, and shelter," he said. "People who are going out to teach kids, especially, should develop their own hand skills so they can encourage the kids," he added...
...Assistant Dean Richard Leahy of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences predicts that some graduate students will have to drop out because of a 25% cut in research support. Harvard's Graduate School of Education may have to abandon a promising study of how preschool children develop. Caltech will have to provide at least $500,000 of its own money to keep 80 NSF research projects going...
Though the cars cost $40,000 to develop and build, they are paying rich dividends. In this year's first and third Can-Am races, at Elkhart Lake, Wis., and Edmonton, Canada, Hulme and McLaren drove to first-and second-place victories. In the Canadian race, both averaged over 100 m.p.h...
...present plan also gives Citroën an option to buy 15% of Fiat. Inasmuch as Citrëen is already carrying debts of more than $100 million (including some $56 million to the De Gaulle government), and needs more capital to develop new models, there is virtually no chance that the French company will ever be able to take advantage of the option. The proviso is, therefore, little more than a face-saving device for De Gaulle...