Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the Italians and the Irish, Heath favors a regional-development policy reinforced with EEC financial assistance to aid depressed industrial areas (such as Britain's Northeast, as well as the West of Ireland and the South of Italy). Like the Germans and Italians, he takes the position that economic policy must develop simultaneously with monetary policy. So far he has resisted French pressure to pin him down on exactly when the still floating pound sterling will be returned to a fixed parity. Heath is committed to such a step by January in any case; if he gets...
...meeting of 45 Graduate School of Design students expressed support yesterday for the continuation of field work in the GSD curriculum, and set up a working committee to restructure the Urban Field Service so the UFS could fully develop field work possibilities...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Emeritus, died last night in Boulder, Colo...at the age of 86. One of the world's foremost astronomers. Shapley helped develop the "big bang" theory, the current dominant theory of the structure of the universe...
...said that he would like to be able to have about 20 Harvard athletes spend several weeks in his yoga classes. "We would do it as an experiment. If they used as much energy on yoga as they do for football practice, their body consciousness would develop very fast. You wouldn't believe the spirit and energy they would have," he commented...
Weil is hardly the first thinker to assert the power of the mind to heal and develop itself: Emerson said as much in "Self-Reliance" in 1841. But Weil's quiet indictment of a society ruled by rationalism and psychological materialism is unique, because it comes from a true child of this society. Moreover, he sees evidence that "we have passed the peak of our rational intellecutal period." The Natural Mind, valuable for its optimism alone, is an important examination of the potential of the mind for finding its own strength and security within...