Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connection between big-time hoop and a winning basketball program is only a tenuous one, and the concept of the player-student often becomes no more than a facile explanation for a losing season at Harvard, one which evades the real question of why other schools can develop good programs and this school...
...rate of profit on these investments was over 18 per cent, officially--and probably far higher in fact, as the firms routinely understate profits so as to avoid paying taxes. More importantly, almost 80 per cent of U.S. investment in African manufacturing--which is generally regarded as key to development--is in South Africa. U.S. investors have helped South Africa develop important basic industry. In the rest of Africa, they concentrate on primary production and last-stage processing, with few linkages or benefits for the rest of the economy. As U.S. firms contribute to an advanced technological foundation...
While it may never come to such a grim "doomsday" scenario, the Soviet Union's growing military muscle may well win important victories through mere intimidation. NATO Commander in Chief General Alexander Haig warns that at some future date a specific East-West pressure point could develop, as it did over Berlin and Cuba. This time, the Soviets not only would be stronger, but might also conclude that America's determination to live up to its commitments has been weakened by setbacks in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Moscow might then risk making tough demands, on the theory...
...Mehta era will not exactly be a period of post-Boulez retrenchment, but it will be more traditional. Mehta's strengths are Brahms, Wagner and such post-romantics as Bruckner and Strauss. About his ability to develop and sustain an orchestra, Los Angeles Executive Director Ernest Fleishman says, "Zubin built the Philharmonic from an orchestra of the secondary rank to one of the dozen greats in the world." Mehta cried when he announced his departure at a morning rehearsal. The orchestra wept with him. Said one member, "New York is lucky...
...choice of what they worked on wasn't very important. The purpose is to teach them to develop technically intensive industry for Taiwan," Brown said...