Word: developable
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...morning’s routine. Their nightlife consisted of watching game tapes as a team for hours a time. Often, watching a 20-minute period of a game would take one-and-a-half hours to get through.Such a rigorous schedule has forced the players to bench procrastination and develop good time management skills.Chu and Cahow both took a year off from school to train for the Olympics, but when they were on campus, Cahow says that by managing her time effectively, she could juggle hockey practice and four or five classes each semester.The struggles of time manangement don?...
...cancer, but here again, it may mean that the study simply hasn?t lasted long enough. The low-fat group did have 9% fewer polyps and other precancerous lesions in their lower gastrointestinal tract-and that is a statistically significant finding. Given how long it takes colorectal cancer to develop, it?s reasonable to be heartened by those results...
...Technology is our friend. Many companies now create pieces of technology that we can use so we don't have to develop all of it ourselves. The bigger challenge is understanding what an advertiser will need, how clients will use the information, and how they will put a value on an ad as the ad goes from the TV to the PC to the video iPod to somewhere else...
...same type of drive can be seen in countries like Uruguay and Chile. In the former, President Tabaré Vázquez epitomizes a left respectful of institutions and eager to develop with help from foreign markets. In the historically socially conservative latter, Michelle Bachelet, a socialist single-mother was elected President a month ago. Since 1990, the socialist Concentración coalition has been in power, working hard to come to terms with the political crimes and economic inequalities of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship...
KRAZY GLUE Harry Coover accidentally discovered cyanoacrylate, the substance in Krazy Glue, on two different occasions: first when trying to create a see-through plastic for gun sights during World War II and then years later, in 1951, when at Kodak attempting to develop a heat-resistant polymer for jet canopies. Both times the new substance was too sticky for his needs. Kodak marketed it in 1958 as an all-purpose, supersticky glue. In Vietnam, medics used it to save lives, sealing cuts before injured soldiers reached a hospital...