Word: developable
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...with a surging budget, no hard choices are being made. The defense plan allows for some modest transformation: the Navy will spend $1 billion to convert four Trident submarines that now fire nuclear missiles into Tomahawk cruise-missile launchers. The Army will fork out $707 million to develop lighter tanks, and the Air Force will pay $629 million to accelerate development of the Global Hawk unmanned spy plane, which flies farther and higher than the Predator, surveying more terrain. The Pentagon wants $3.3 billion to speed the gathering and distribution of intelligence, and $1.3 billion to improve communications. Special forces...
Professors should have clear expectations not only for the students, but also for the teaching staff. Head TFs should serve more than an administrative function; as the most experienced and qualified member of the teaching corps, the head TF should work closely with the professor to develop a solid understanding of the course’s grading standards and must then, in turn, monitor the grades awarded by each TF. This doesn’t mean that all TFs must give the same grades, but it does mean that if one TF is giving higher (or lower) grades than...
...Finley, for example, enjoys parading her body and getting drunk and acting like a lunatic. Granted, she says she has her feminist reasons behind what she does—although her whole life stands as a hypocritical opposition to those beliefs—but she doesn’t develop what she believes in and wants to express and then finds the best medium to express that. Instead, she finds the medium she likes, and then does what she wants, and finally ascribes meaning...
Most tracks emerge from a churning undercurrent of buzzing guitars and shifting rhythms, but few develop into memorable, fully structured songs. “See Yourself” is the rare example that could stand alone as a radio-worthy single—guitars whine into action over a tactile bass line, and the plaintive pop vocals provide a memorable hook. “That Ole Sun” spins hokey lyrics into a mid-tempo tune that would have been at home with tambourine accompaniment back in the Summer of Love. “Hide in the Light?...
Under the current timetable, Harvard hopes to complete union negotiations by May and to develop a parity wage plan—to ensure outsourced workers receive similar pay and benefits to comparable in-house workers—by March...