Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Reid found little to worry about in the new pattern of housing. A few more of the women rooming in the coed dorms were having long-term love affairs than those in all-female dorms, but casual sex was no more common. Women students discovered that they can develop enduring platonic friendships with men and that they are far less self-conscious around them...
...Independence. Within the next decade, he told the conference, the U.S. must increase the supply of domestic energy while decreasing the growth in demand for it. That will be anything but easy. One panel of experts* emphasized the long lead times and billions of dollars of capital needed to develop oil-shale deposits, clean up coal, build more nuclear power plants and bring alternative energy sources such as geothermal power into operation. Indeed, reaching self-sufficiency in a decade is probably impossible...
Significantly, the embargo also "caused considerable frustration and dismay, almost akin to a feeling of betrayal." Without abundant energy, the American way of life seemed lost. The answer, Keller continued, is "to develop a new philosophy of life-nothing short of that-as we are forced to shift our priorities from accumulation to preservation." Facing up to energy shortages, she hoped, "may encourage a sense of togetherness and community that everyone seems to be seeking...
...time of his death, Raper was planning to spend a semester's sabbatical in the Netherlands to develop new techniques in cell culture and to further his botanical research...
...million Americans will die in the next twenty years from a cancer-like malignant tumor that they will contract from constant exposure to asbestos, exposure that as urban dwellers they cannot now avoid. This fatal growth, called mesothelioma, can develop twenty to forty years after its victims begin to inhale the asbestos fiber. The tumor attacks the pleura and peritonium--the membrane sacks that surround the lung and abdominal cavities--and can grow whether or not the exposure continues. Most alarming of all, the number of asbestos fibers in the air around us increases every year...