Word: developers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems like something out of George Orwell: television sets souped up so they can watch viewers watching them. Last week Nielsen Media Research, purveyor of the make-or-break TV ratings, announced plans to develop just such a gizmo. The "passive people meter," a computerized camera system, would sit atop sets in thousands of households, keeping an eye on every move that viewers made...
Children normally learn to trust and develop attachments to people within the first two years of life. By then they have also acquired a sense of compassion and empathy for others. And they have begun to be taught the difference between right and wrong and that hurtful actions have consequences. Many youngsters, though, fail to acquire those early curbs on conduct. Later on, when children misbehave, indulgent parents make excuses and forgo punishments. Young boys who grow up with absent or uninvolved fathers suffer doubly in that they often fail to develop a healthy sense of masculinity...
Although FAS last month reached an "understanding" with Harvard's central administration that it would eventually be allowed to develop the Gulf site for academic use, the Faculty has yet to come up with a concrete proposal...
...time may have run out for the University. On Monday night, the City Council approved a change in the site's zoning which drastically curbs Harvard's ability to develop it. Harvard is threatening to sue the city, claiming that the new zoning unfairly focuses on the Gulf land...
...main problem they identified is the creation of new courses. Core courses take one or two years to develop, professors say, and it is also difficult to get faculty to teach them...