Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started about a year ago, when John M. Saul, 37, and his partner Elliot ("Tim") Miller discovered in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park a deposit of rubies that was later estimated to be worth at least $5 million. Saul and Miller got a fully legal permit to develop their find. Figuring local participation would ease their way, they shrewdly offered 51% of the deal to a group of high-ranking Kenyans, including Vice President Daniel Arap...
Though remote-control planes have long been used by the military, the Jefferson County sheriffs office is the first law-enforcement agency to develop a similar device. Some local residents complain that a craft laden with explosives and controlled by inexperienced lawmen could easily become a menace. Moreover, if Bailey also uses the plane to photograph crime and accident sites, the RPV could turn into an airborne invader of a citizen's privacy...
...disease will afflict some 90,000 American women and kill another 30,000 this year. But recent studies reinforce the doctors' insistence that early diagnosis can reduce both its fatality rate and the trauma of its treatment. The experience of survivors proves that most of those who develop the disease can learn to live with its aftereffects...
...race began slowly because no one was willing to push the pace. A pattern soon began to develop, however, as Harvard bunched most of its runners at the front of the pack...
...into the house and his wife says "You've been with Kagle today." (Kagle is Slocum's limping co-worker). And he says, "How do you know?" So he didn't know he's picking up a limp. Now that, I think, is surrealistic. I think a person might develop a strut or a swagger, that of somebody else with whom he associates, but certainly not a limp. whom he associates, but certainly not a limp...