Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joint project to develop a new battle tank for the 1970s. Estimated development costs of $100 million a year would be shared equally...
...whole Ngo Dinh family made the French regard the Nhus with suspicion. Settling in the resort town of Dalat, the Nhus quietly set about organizing popular support for the return to Viet Nam of Diem, who was in exile in the U.S. Nhu ran a paper and worked to develop his philosophy of personalism; to win favor among poor, potential supporters, Mme. Nhu turned down her family's hefty allowance, shopped for her own groceries, pedaled around Dalat on a bicycle...
...time, Belaúnde feels, to be gin bridging the deadly gulf between Peru's haves and have-nots by develop ing the nation that lies beyond the cities and the factories. During his campaign, Belaúnde journeyed to the remote out back of eastern Peru by canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self...
...another, they grow fast, and give a quick indication of a drug's effects. Promine speeds the growth of these cancers; retine makes them grow more slowly and actually causes some tumors, already well grown, to shrink. Perhaps most important, retine also works in cancers that certain mice develop naturally, which makes them more nearly comparable to the human disease. And neither pro-mine nor retine seems to have any harmful incidental effects-in sharp contrast with virtually all anticancer drugs...
Double the Retine? Nothing quite like promine and retine has been discovered before, although sex hormones and chemically related compounds are used in treating some forms of cancer. The commonest of the many kinds of cancer, Szent-Gyorgyi notes, are the types that usually develop in middle life. "We have some evidence from ani mals," he says, "that the body's output of both promine and retine may decline with advancing age. But what seems to be more important is that the ratio of the two substances changes. Later in life, the body makes proportionately less of the retarding...