Word: developable
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...fresh start" and "momentum" they spoke about will actually lead anywhere. Not only was there no resolution of the basic issues dividing the two sides, which could hardly have been expected, but there was no hint of progress toward resolution, a more reasonable hope. How American plans to develop space-based strategic defenses can be reconciled with the quest for deep reductions in strategic offenses remains as much of a conundrum as ever. An American negotiator who is a regular at the ongoing arms-control talks in Geneva remarked, "It's nice to have our bosses wish us luck...
...island from Spain in 1898. Almost 70% of the commonwealth's food is imported; the government spends $1.2 billion a year buying groceries from abroad for its 3.3 million citizens. Local officials have tried without much success to stimulate food production. Though the commonwealth has spent $60 million to develop rice farming, only 3,000 acres have been brought into production...
More important to the U.S. is a complex 1980 agreement that grants it limited access to four strategic Omani air bases. These facilities serve as a supply and deployment base for the U.S. Central Command, formerly called the Rapid Deployment Force, should a crisis develop in the region. Washington has spent $256 million to lengthen runways, harden concrete aircraft hangars and install storage tanks capable of holding 1.1 million gal. of jet fuel at the bases. American C-141 and C-5A cargo planes routinely land at the Masirah Island base, off Oman's southeastern coast, dropping off supplies...
...wrote the book with Novelist Maureen Strange Foster, admits that some of the story is autobiographical. "I used kernels of truth and experience," she says, "and embellished the rest." Davis found fiction such a snap that she has already begun a second novel and has received offers to develop Home Front into a television movie. Naturally, Davis, who was featured in the 1981 TV movie For Ladies Only, has her eye on the leading role. Of course, if she needs any coaching for the part, she can always go to her real-life parents for help...
...parents and child about sexual matters." The plan has won favor with conservative church groups but has been derided by family-planning advocates as an unrealistic "chastity act." Terrance Olson, professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is using funds from the new program to develop a conservative sex-education curriculum. Olson's offering stresses abstinence, and, he says, "we try to involve teenagers with their parents in understanding the issues of marriage, family and reproduction." The program has been tested in selected schools in Utah, California and New Mexico since 1982, but, he admits...