Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write a play, the dramatist once needed an idea plus the imagination, the knowledge of life and the craft to develop it. Nowadays, more and more, all he needs is someone else's book. To get started, he does not scan the world about him; he and his prospective producer just read the bestseller lists. So far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many adaptations and imports as original American stage plays...
...both houses of Congress. He urges creation of machinery to coordinate the agencies and fit their activities into the administration-in short, to make the independent agencies less independent. The machinery, to be set up within the executive office of the President, would consist of three offices to develop national policies in the realms of transportation, communications and "energy," plus a fourth office to oversee all the regulatory agencies (but with no authority to intervene in particular pending cases...
...migrated from Asia. The majority thinks that they brought with them only the rock-bottom culture of nomadic hunters and thereafter built their own glittering cultures independently, without help from across the Pacific. The contrary view is that Asian cultures kept trickling over the ocean, materially helping the Indians develop their advanced civilizations...
...Radar. FAA is working to eliminate the human element almost entirely and turn traffic control over to computers, is spending $200 million a year to develop an all-weather, electronically controlled system. Devices for the new system are already being developed and tested at FAA's experimental center at Atlantic City, NJ. One of the chief projects: three-dimensional radar, which, unlike present radar that shows only distance and bearing, will also show altitude. The FAA is testing an experimental 3-D radar apparatus, designed by New York's W. L. Maxson Corp., which picks up a target...
Stock price boosting succeeds so well because Wall Street is full of investors looking for a lower-priced stock that may develop a new electronics or space product and become a fast-rising glamour stock. The spread of stock-option plans as a form of executive compensation has made stock-minded men of many corporate bosses who once paid little attention to Wall Street. An option is good only if the stock rises. Merger-minded companies also want their stock to have a higher price-earnings ratio; it gives them an advantage in a stock-trading merger with another company...