Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crank themselves up again? They've been through a traumatic experience this year." Finally, he wondered if he and McGovern could work together closely enough. "There must be a relationship of mutual understanding and confidence to override all the little, petty, nitpicking friction points that are bound to develop in any campaign...
...technology that enables society to utilize new resources, wring more food from the land and curb pollution. In the resources field, some experts sketch this scenario: long before resources run out, scarcities would force price boosts. The expense would prod industrialists and consumers to substitute one material for another, develop recycling techniques to use existing supplies more efficiently, and redouble efforts to find ways of using materials-for example, oil-bearing shale-that were previously uneconomic or technically impossible to exploit. Before long, commercial harnassing of thermonuclear fusion could make available limitless quantities of low-cost energy, which could...
...Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving California wine business...
...Calif. Within three hours after the employment office opened, more than 500 job applications had been submitted. What had brought them to the small industrial city was NASA'S announcement that North American, the prime contractor on the Apollo program, had won a contract for $2.6 billion to develop the nation's first space shuttle. This is one of the largest single contracts ever received by any company, and should help relieve the painful recession that has gripped Southern California's aerospace industry since 1969. North American will have to hire about 9,000 new workers within...
...they face the privations and adventures that follow, Jay and Catherine quickly develop a Tracy-Hepburn love-hate relationship. Jay is cold and scornful; Catherine feels that she has traded one insufferable male for another. But eventually accommodation follows passion down a well-worn path...