Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief but perceptive introduction, Poirier correctly blames the generally "dispirited condition of contemporary fiction" for the quality of current magazines--not vice versa. He directs his criticism toward those writers in whom he finds a failure to develop a personal voice and, hence, "a surrender to certain fashionable themes, situations, or characters" or to "some commercially established standards of form and craft." He further notes that the plea in the greatest American fiction has been for an intensely personal view of reality, springing from "a lack of confidence in the solidity of social structures other than the one being created...
...taxes wipe out the very funds earmarked for plant investment. "By the time he's through," complained one industry spokesman, "he's given an incentive of $1.7 billion, and taken that and more out of the savings stream. And how that is a way to develop incentive, I don't know...
...These are trying days with the new Houses," Fair asserted, "because we want them to develop a good group of students.' Fair asserted, "because we want them to develop a good group of students." But he said that good will exists among the Masters and there is no need to change the system...
They were right. In the A.M.A. Journal, the research trio reported that the tri-radial crosshatches of congenital heart cases were etched nearer the center of their palms twice as often as those who had developed heart disease later. The pattern also tended to be more disorganized in the hands of congenital heart patients-a possible result of the same mysterious mechanisms that cause abnormalities to develop in the fetus...
...years ago the directors decided to take a chance, even if it meant temporarily running in the red, on spending money to develop new products and to get a younger management...