Word: developement
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Another contradiction is Algeria's growing ties with the U.S., although diplomatic relations between the two have been severed since the Six-Day War. Four hundred American technicians are helping Boumedienne develop the immense oil and natural-gas resources in the Sahara, and even U.S. management firms have been retained to smooth administrative problems. The biggest deal made so far by Sonatrach, the government-owned monopoly, is a $5 billion contract to provide natural gas for the U.S. East Coast. "There is no contradiction in our policy," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammed ben Mehal blandly explained to TIME Correspondent Gavin...
Wilson's farming efforts are spreading from the land to the sea. The company has an experimental fish farm in Puget Sound, where it is developing plate-sized salmon; the only salmon now on the market are 30-to 40-pound-ers that are caught in the wild with a great deal of labor. These projects are part of Wilson's drive to develop more consumer products, which require less capital investment than the industrial commodities that now bring 78% of Union Carbide's sales. "It won't happen in my lifetime," says Wilson, "but some...
...handling of these proposals is extraordinary: few of them even remotely threaten the existing structure. The failure to implement these stop-gap proposals or essentially preliminary measures is chiefly a reflection of power interests within the University or of general Faculty unconcern regarding change. Were any attempt made to develop a coherent philosophy of education for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, much less to arrange some "grand commission," students, faculty and administrators would have to face at least the following issues: to what degree a university education actually serves the individual; the value of a university education in modern society...
...debates in Washington. TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan reports: "It is a liberal law being administered by a conservative Administration. President Nixon would like to turn over supervision of safety laws to the states. The unions and the Democrats would rather see the power remain in Washington." If states do develop tough industrial safety standards-Texas, Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming have notably weak codes -the Government will pay 50% of the operating costs and 90% of the start-up expenses. So far only one state, South Carolina, has requested funds...
Robert Williams, a black psychologist from Washington University in St. Louis who spoke to the convention, said Saturday that white psychologists are largely responsible for the educational system's inability to adjust to black culture. Williams said that white psychologists who don't understand blacks develop theories about black culture and then plagiarize the work of black psychologists to defend their theories...