Word: developed
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...full potential of the department's personnel and other resources. He is pleased, he says, with the complement of personnel in the department, especially the extent of experience and technical training of many of its members. He is also impressed by what he sees as the members' eagerness to develop supervisory, investigative and human relations skills...
Chafin says he plans to develop a "new promotional mode" in the department. Candidates for promotion will first have to take a written examination prepared by an outside agency, and then go through a follow-up oral examination. The new chief also expects to fill a few patrolmen's jobs in the near future, a move that will likely please the several patrolmen who last spring wondered why the police administration never bothered to fill the vacancies that occurred during the Gorski administration. Patrolman James P. Sullivan explained last June that when Gorski entered the department, he claimed he would...
Griggs also recalls Kenyatta giving speeches in three languages: "He would lead off in deep, booming English for the whites, talking of how Kenyans should not resent foreigners but understand that they were in Kenya to help blacks develop...
Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor History, is trying to develop a new theory of American History. Right now he and his clones are throwing together some computer statistics on demographics, and discouraging people from majoring in American History. There are many Nobel Prize winners among us here at Harvard, including Kenneth Arrow, University Professor and recipient of the hallowed award in 1972 for his work in General Equilibrium and the Concept of Social Choice. Arrow, however, will be leaving Harvard next fall for the warmer and sunnier climate at Sanford...
...goes without saying, of course, that those same deans and professors and administrators who so pride themselves on this objectivity still manage to develop a bias of their own on occasion. Yet, the argument goes, these are opinions based on a survey, "the full picture" taken from a room in University Hall, and so much clearer than the view here on Plympton St. Students, the deans will say, cannot form proper opinions because they do not have all the facts; yet they will not release the facts to newspaers because they fear the opinions that might develop. The dispassionate observer...