Word: developed
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...Pentagon will have to use still more women, which it is already planning to do. Even now, it is easier to recruit educated and capable women than similarly qualified men. Studies show, for example, that females like the military's work environment, the security and the opportunity to develop skills, as well as the excitement and the chance to serve the nation. Explains Bambi Hunter, 23, a sergeant at Travis Air Force Base: "I wanted to get away from my small home town and didn't want to go to college." For Lance Corporal Genest, joining the Marines...
...communities. They grew vegetables in Rafah and built resorts on the Gulf of Aqaba. They spent $150 million on civilian enterprises and $2 billion on military installations, including two big new airfields, two old ones, three early warning stations and about 1,000 miles of roads. Jerusalem continued to develop the Sinai even after the disengagement agreements of 1974 and 1975, under which the Israelis pulled back from the Suez Canal, the Egyptians reduced their forces in the area, and the Israelis returned the Ras Sudr and Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egyptian control...
...Egyptians not try harder to develop the Sinai before the Israelis seized it in 1967? Osman Ahmed Osman, the country's biggest building contractor, argues that the Aswan Dam has made new dreams possible. In the past, Osman claims, Egypt was in constant danger of running out of water in any given year and thus could not develop new areas. Now, the Egyptians believe, they have the water power to make the northwestern Sinai blossom like the Nile Valley...
Many observers are reserving judgement on the Core until Harvard develops specific courses because they realize the strength or weakness of a liberal arts curriculum lies in the individual courses and not in broad guidelines. Choosing to reform courses and not guidelines, a Johns Hopkins Physics professor, Gordon Feldman, is leading an experiment to develop four interdisciplinary courses that students can use in the next two years to fulfill general education requirements...
Unlike most schools, Harvard has long kept its general education courses separate from its interdepartmental offerings, thereby avoiding many interdepartmental squabbles. Others do not have the resources to develop a completely separate set of courses for gen ed. But even Harvard has not completely escaped the problem of academic politics, which complicates general education reform. Atlantic Monthly says departmental power struggles and the ensuing need for compromises between competing interests ensures that no single, clear vision of educational priorities guides faculties. "Somewhere in the profusion of competing interests, the goal of the pursuit of knowledge was submerged," says Alston Chase...