Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says, some athletes at Harvard do not develop as much as those at "big-time" schools because the athletes here branch off into academics and other activities...
...Charles de Gaulle, computer logic was politically straightforward: France, he insisted, must develop a home-grown computer industry capable of competing with the American giants, particularly IBM. For nearly nine years the French government followed his Plan Calcul. Last week France abandoned its pursuit of that chimera and approved the merger of the Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique, a 24% government-controlled computer company, with Honeywell Bull, the Paris-based subsidiary of the U.S. computer maker Honeywell...
...University in Pennsylvania because, he says. "I was looking for adventure." After four months of infantry duty--"mostly assaults on Viet Cong way stations along the Ho Chi Minh trail," he says--in Bin Ding province in the Central Highlands, Marton had a "bellyful of adventure" and began to develop an interest in the politics of the Vietnam...
...started his schoolwork for this semester, and had over 100 pages of papers to write by the end of the term. But he is convinced that what he has learned from working with the children is just as valuable as his formal education. "Harvard is not a place to develop a social consciousness," he says. "After four years here and some more at grad school, you can't go out and help people. It develops with time spent working with people...
Multiple births are not the only problems that go with fertility drugs. Though many, perhaps even the majority of women who take fertility drugs experience no ill effects, a number develop potentially serious illnesses. Researchers found that women who took Clomid occasionally developed ovarian cysts. which, without skillful treatment, can rupture and cause internal hemorrhaging and death. The incidence of cysts is higher with Pergonal...