Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sierra Club plans for recreational use of islands in Boston Harbor demonstrate another shade of citizen-serving thought. To provide "vital contact with a natural environment which is close" the club will develop Lovell's Island for hiking, arts and crafts work and other activities. Certainly anyone who's spent a hot two hours in a Sunday-in-July traffic jam should be enthusiastic about this project...
...with few close friends himself ("I lead a feeble social life"), Wright ponders the possibility that dependency on friendship is something that people grow out of-or should. "If individuals continue to develop psychologically throughout their lives, whether as members of a marital unit or not, their need for friendship becomes progressively less," he says. "I don't mean that people don't continue to have friends, but that they don't any longer need them." Why not? "In a way, friendship is for ignorant beginners in life. It is for those who are not grown...
...thoughtful memorandum being circulated in Washington by Yale Law School students puts the issue: "The expansion of the war into Cambodia is the latest in a long series of acts which, taken together, have nearly stripped Congress of its war power. Undoubtedly, the speed with which crises develop in the modern world necessitates a strong executive who can respond quickly. The real question is whether the balance has shifted too far in favor of the executive...
While chairing a joint congressional subcommittee hearing on the SST two weeks ago, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire labeled the program a waste. At issue was whether Congress should appropriate another $290 million to help industry develop the aircraft. The Government has already spent more than $700 million, and plans to spend a total of at least $1.3 billion. Along with the spiraling cost, Senator Proxmire was angered by the Department of Transportation's failure to present reports on the ecological effects of the SST to Russell Train, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality...
...Private Sea), concludes that nothing short of a religious conversion can save America. Technology is beyond reversal−"that which can be done must be done" is the law of applied science. But the country's attitude toward technology can perhaps be changed. The U.S. could, for instance, develop a proper distrust for the "gospel of growth." Such a change in attitude could put human welfare ahead of gross national product...