Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial point of whether or not prisoners were still at Son Tay. "Obviously the raid wasn't successful because of faulty intelligence," said Vice President Spiro Agnew from Palm Springs where he was golfing. Laird's only explanation was feeble: "We have not been able to develop a camera that sees through the roofs of buildings." The Pentagon insists that since prisoners are exercised only rarely in the open, there is simply no way to tell when they have been moved. One former senior Washington official found the intelligence failure unbelievable. Reconnaissance by satellite as well as by manned...
American architecture has never been able to develop a force and style of its own, expressing the deeper characteristics and needs of the people. Even American colleges-the arbiters and nurturers of taste and respectable culture-reflect this inarticulate need to conjure a non-existent architectural past at the expense of a real and deteroriating present. The modern college gymnasium cannot escape the desire to fit everything into the Georgian or Gothic shells of antiquity...
When the season began, the Yardling booters appeared to be grooming only one prospective varsity player-forward Felix Adedeji. But now Getchell hopes that seven freshman "can contribute significantly to the varsity next year if they continue to develop...
...observing the same forces in the same societies to arrive at radically different conclusions. Ernest Mandel, for one, never ceased insisting that it is perfectly possible in the present general economic climate-that of "neo-capitalist-affluence" or the "mass consumption society"-for increased radicalism and revolutionary tendencies to develop as a result of a whole series of social, economic or even military crises. And he was writing precisely at the same time as Lipset was visualizing the end of politics and of class conflict, and long before the events of May 1968 so decisively exploded the ruling orthodoxy...
...things escaped the dictator's attention. Khrushchev recounts that he was once told to telephone Stalin at home. "Comrade Khrushchev," Stalin said, "rumors have reached me that you've let a very unfavorable situation develop in Moscow as regards public toilets. Apparently people can't find anywhere to relieve themselves. This won't do." Khrushchev relates that he and Nikolai Bulganin, then head of the Moscow Soviet and later to become Premier, "worked feverishly" on the problem...