Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire staff is participating in a training group sponsored by the Bureau of Study Counsel to develop their skills as listeners. "We're not therapists or professionals," said McKenna, "but we do believe that listening in itself is doing something. No one is imposing on us by calling or coming...
...dictator's homage to the ultraright was not the only price exacted by the army. While conceding that war with Communist invaders from Moscow or Peking was "improbable," Carrero Blanco announced that the nation had no choice but to develop its "maximum military potential." That means that Spain will increase its spending on its armed services and other security forces, which already command an outsized 18.6% of the gross national product...
...Russians are unmistakably on the verge of naval domination. They have helped develop the Indian port of Visakhapatnam and are adapting it for the possible use of Soviet submarines. On South Yemen's island of Socotra, which dominates the approach to the Red Sea, they are constructing a naval radio station and ammunition depot. On Mauritius they have been given harbor facilities. In addition, the Russians have signed fishing agreements with at least ten nations, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, and along the East African coast they have set up a string of buoys which could be used...
...Surgeon is no tale of easy triumph -or comfort to people headed for the hospital. The point of this impressively honest memoir is that surgeons learn by doing, and patients often suffer in the process. As Nolen tells it, trial and error is still the only way to develop the skill and gall that a first-rate surgeon requires...
...Senate voted this month to deny the President any more funds to develop a supersonic transport, while the House had authorized the $290 million that the President had requested. A House-Senate conference committee tried to compromise the issue by granting $210 million for the plane. The Senate's Mansfield called this "a capitulation of the Senate position," while other SST critics more bluntly termed it a "betrayal" and "a rape of the will of the Senate." Vowed one: "We're not going to lay over for the old men in the conference committees, who are in league...