Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Choices of Action. The U.S. must develop, and quickly, a policy demonstrating a will and commitment to remain involved in the crescent, and to use its power to protect its friends and vital interests there. Said Helms: "We're talking now about power politics, and since we are, let's not apologize for the fact; let's talk about it. We have all kinds of people who would be glad to know that the U.S. is in there and committed, and I think we would find, like a magnet, a whole lot of those filings coming toward...
...Administration needs to act quickly to create confidence by demonstrating that it has a strong policy to develop and conserve energy. Its pledge to let gasoline prices rise somewhat to discourage consumption is welcome, but long overdue. What is more, even at $1 a gallon, gasoline in the U.S. still would be much cheaper than in almost all other industrial nations. Controls on gasoline prices do not simply need to be relaxed; they need to be eliminated altogether. Only when gasoline becomes too precious to waste will people stop wasting...
DIED. Henrich Focke, 88, German aircraft designer who helped develop the helicopter; in Bremen. Inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...
...commission argues that the poverty of the public broadcasting system also is responsible for the dearth of high-quality programs on non-commercial stations. "Public broadcasting was unable to develop a program about blacks with the appeal and quality of 'Roots'," the commission--which just happened to include Alex Haley--says, "because it lacked funds for a project of such magnitude." The commission advocates insulated annual allocations to the Program Services Endowment, which will finance creative talent in an unpressured atmosphere...
...When it comes to competitive match situations you have to rely on reactions, and the only way that a wrestler can expect to develop the proper reactions is through knowledge and drilling and Paul Widerman is learning to combine the two successfully," Lee said...