Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is generally sedate, but things can get out of hand when customers develop what Manager Inoue calls "a more than routine attachment to some of our boys." One lady arrived to find her favorite host with another client. She promptly belted down half a bottle of whiskey, demanded a duel with her rival-and found herself quickly shown the door. Another, similarly offended, poured herself a large sake and made local history by shredding her kimono on the spot...
...state and federal laws designed to conserve open soace have been enacted, and many localities have devised ways of protecting or enlarging their holdings. Even subdividers have learned that it pays to cluster, rather than spread, houses over their tracts. They save money by not having to develop all of their property-and customers are happy to give up a small backyard for a large view...
...mating technique works on other insect species, it may provide a final answer to man's bug problems. Unlike the spraying of DDT and other chemical pesticides, the hormone technique affects only the treated species of insect and does not contaminate plant and animal life. And insects cannot develop immunity against it, for if they did, they would become immune to the hormone that is essential to part of their life cycle. The new technique is also superior to the release of radiation-sterilized male insects, which often fail to compete with their unradiated brothers in mating with fertile...
...black Africa is to make its own way economically, it will have to develop far greater numbers of native-born businessmen. Ghana and Nigeria have both made headway in that direction, but neither is moving any faster than Kenya, which won its independence from Britain less than five years ago. More and more of Kenya's blacks, who make up 97% of the country's population of 10 million, have been going into enterprises that once were the preserve of whites and Asians...
...fast becoming a more representative figure in Kenya than Mr. Shida. In its eagerness to develop a native cadre of businessmen, however, Kenya must use restraint. Pressed by the government to aid in the effort, many non-African businessmen note that effective training takes time. And a group of University of Nairobi economists, African and white alike, has warned that Africanization, essential as it is, could impair Kenya's continued economic growth if pushed too fast...