Word: developed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter glories in his access to movie libraries and is wallowing in classics like the Humphrey Bogart pictures. He tramps the trails of the Catoctin Mountains cataloguing the birds. He has failed to develop a passion for chocolate mousse despite exposure to such dishes at state dinners. He carefully monitors his allergies, skirting Swiss cheese, lima beans and hops (Billy has no such trouble). He works hard at being a father and insists that the presidential schedule bend around Amy's violin recitals and special school days...
International Cooperation. It is evident that Italy's Red Brigades have ties to West Germany's Red Army Faction, the Japanese Red Army and radical Palestinian groups. Hence, for the sake of survival, states threatened by terrorists need to develop new, transnational means of dealing with a common enemy. Some steps in this direction have been taken. Virtually every police force in Western Europe cooperated with the West Germans in trying to track down the killers of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall. Shortly after the Moro kidnaping, the Interior Ministers of West Germany, Italy and Switzerland...
...initiate and develop training programs that will prepare, in substantial numbers, blacks and other non-whites for supervisory, administrative, clerical, and technical jobs...
...THIS DUALISM within activity, a dualism between the forced and the unforced, the tedious and the creative, the unpleasant and the enjoyable, is an artificial one. It is a consequence of the development of a system of highly differentiated labor found only in modern western societies. In fact, all activity can be an enjoyable expression of human creativity, and all activity can develop and increase the range of that creativity. The dichotomy between the eight hours of the day we spend working, and the following hours we spend recuperating and pursuing our own inclinations, must itself be challenged if culture...
Seven years ago, when curiosity attracted me to an introductory lecture describing the program, two things stuck in my mind. One was the central objective, to develop the full potential of the individual, a reasonable goal. The other was the description of the simple, effortless technique that was supposed to accomplish this. The description of the thinking process and how transcending it could produce positive results on all levels of life was new to me, and I had little basis on which to judge its plausibility. However, the word "effortless" was especially meaningful...