Word: developing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teaching Americans how to eat Italian sometimes seems like a Sisyphean task. "I can't ever get over how difficult it is to develop knowledge about Italian food," she says. "You go to a Chinese restaurant, and people are eating with chopsticks. But give them a spoon with pasta, and they don't know how to roll it on the fork!" That's not all. "Why is pasta overcooked in America? Why is it oversauced? I get depressed." She regrets having put a cold-pasta recipe in her More Classic Italian Cookbook, which apparently sparked America's pasta-salad boom...
...meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt to the new Soviet sweetness, warning that if the U.S. expands the reach of its short- range launchers as planned, the Soviet reaction might be to develop a new short-range rocket...
Besides making intensive efforts to restore specific monuments, EAO officials want to develop general strategies for keeping sites from deteriorating further. Hawass suggests creating a zone of protection around each valuable monument. "Sites in Egypt are not protected at all," he says. "We need to take away all mechanical activity for at least two to three miles around them." Tawfik proposes eventually planting trees around all outdoor monuments to protect them from winds as well as to absorb moisture. Within monuments, he wants to install clear plastic shields to prevent tourists from touching paintings and inscriptions and air-cleaning systems...
...People in college do not [necessarily] get addicted, but they develop habits," added Valliant...
Although the disease is very difficult to diagnose at the college level, researchers including Valle say that many drinkers develop traits characteristic of an alcoholic while in college. "I think that a number of people here are alcoholics and just don't know it," Valle says...