Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology required for extracting it: chiefly, automated tools and, to make life bearable for the miners, air conditioning. The present boom can be traced largely to the vision of one remarkable man, Charles Court, a Perth accountant turned politician who served as Western Australia's Minister for Industrial Development from 1960 until this year. "We must develop our great empty spaces," Court said, "before we can say we really own Australia...
...providing 70 million. Some Australians have grumbled that the Pilbara will simply become "a quarry for Japan." The best answer is provided by Charles Court, who set the great iron ball rolling in the Pilbara seven years ago: "A quarry has no soul, no permanence. Next we have to develop industries in the north. I think the great task for Australia is to develop new northern cities, and not simply grow around the big southern centers. The best defense policy is to settle the north...
Pictures of Nasser continue to hang in Egypt's public buildings. Sadat soon began to develop his own style, however. Nasser had worked only in the Kubbeh Republican Palace on the outskirts of Cairo; Sadat also opened up the older, ornate Abdine Palace down town, which had belonged to Farouk. He also holds occasional meetings in a suite of the new Cairo-Sheraton Hotel, a 23-story building that is now the tallest in Cairo. Nasser was a restless ball of energy who could work a 20-hour day. Sadat works at a less frenetic pace. He prefers to spend...
...decade later, it still remains-an ugly, 25-mile scar across the face of Berlin. But the Wall stanched the drain of talented people, enabling him to stabilize and develop East Germany into the world's ninth largest industrial power, with a gross national income of $29.5 billion. That, in turn, gave Ulbricht great leverage within the East bloc. He shared none of the Soviet desire for technological help from the West; he has access to West German aid anyhow through various trade arrangements. Ulbricht's consuming fear was that closer ties with the West could undermine Communist...
...Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who is giving the Government a new $45 million annex to the gallery. Burger's ceremonial spadework was the more convincing-perhaps because of his youthful days as a day laborer working on the Robert Street bridge, which spans the Mississippi. That job also helped develop his judicial prudence. The contractor, he recalls, told him to use three bags less cement in the concrete when the inspectors were not looking. "I used the full amount all the time," says Burger, "but I hid the three extra empties to keep from getting caught. Maybe that is what...