Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalling coincidence. Yet as she herself emerges as the subject of her own fantasy, the elements of the tale fall tidily into place, leaving the cold sensation of hard and real characters existing only as shatterproof shells. Without evidence of conscious effort, Kulukundis has managed to sketch characters who develop as they interact with each other, not with the author's conception of them. And his fast and clean style complements the carefully woven story he tells...
...every innovation by the bandit-beaters, the operators develop a safeguard. And for every safeguard, there is a new way to hit the jackpot. "Hell," says one disgusted slot-machine mechanic, "you could surround the thing with sheet metal, and they will find a way to beat it." Yet for all the troubles with the professional jackpotters, there are always enough honest, ordinary suckers around to make the one-armed bandit history's healthiest highwayman...
...gift, to extend over an eight year period, will help the School of Education develop some of its new teacher training programs. One of these is an apprentice arrangement, whereby college graduates work part-time as teachers in neighboring schools while pursuing their studies in the University...
...come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time. They make labor contracts that run for years, buy raw materials on contracts that run for years, develop and launch new products that take years...
Dobbins said that he donated the prize in order to promote more interest in rugby as a sport which helps to develop. "athletic students, not collegiate athletes." By accepting graduates as well as College students, both the University and M.I.T. clubs give all men an opportunity to compete in intercollegiate sports...