Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chomsky said that the future course of the war depends largely on the extent to which the National Liberation Front-Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam is able to develop an opposition structure in the cities...
...secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests. "It's like the Nixon Doctrine," his guide remarked dryly. "Asians to fight Asians...
...also lease trailer-borne marquees to Dallas stores, or design football bumper stickers and sell them to alumni. Some enterprises die aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...
...Blacks are proportionately more vulnerable than whites. Black men are 65% more likely to suffer from cancer of the prostate than whites, 250% more susceptible to cancer of the esophagus. Black women are 25% less likely to develop cancers of the breast or uterus than whites, but 115% more likely to get cancer of the cervix...
South Vietnam will accept foreign assistance to develop its mineral resources, if such assistance comes without political strings; it will participate in plans for Southeast Asian regional economic cooperation...