Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-boiled and whimsical. He was brutal and tender, so I was told. From shop girl to 'sassiety queen,' they all seemed to develop certain tendencies in his presence. What may have resulted, deponent sayeth not. About some things 'Gene was Spinx-like. All I can report are the phenomena." --Weaver
...Judge Baker Guidance Center, a teaching unit directed by the University's Medical School, Graduate School of Education, and Department of Social Relations, has announced a five-year program to develop a model training course for workers in juvenile delinquency. If successful, the program will be followed by other universities...
...their side, the British will have to develop a security system that can convince American skeptics that cooperation will not lead to further disasters. They will have to give up much of their independence in weapons development, which they must admit has helped foster for them the continuing illusion of military self-sufficiency. But in the last analysis, the British now seem to have secured what they bargained for all along with their own separate weapons systems and their go-it-alone campaign in Suez: full recognition as a valued and respected participant in an Atlantic alliance...
IRAN, whose two-year-old development program looks ultimately to a wholly free economy. Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, director of Iran's Seven-Year Plan Organization, said that his country will spend $1.1 billion in oil revenues to build "basic 'facilities which will create the climate necessary to stimulate private enterprise. Our philosophy is to develop and operate industry only when private capital is unable or unwilling to do so." While emphasizing that foreign capital is essential to the.program, Ebtehaj said that the country's greatest present need is for consultants, industrial managers, technicians. "Our need...
...state ownership of productive industries. Several Asians contended that government financing was essential for key industries that do not readily attract private investment. But neither Black nor any other speaker at the conference argued that an agricultural nation could hope to struggle up from poverty until its government has developed the basic facilities of an industrial economy: roads, harbors, railways, communications, schools, reservoirs, power plants. In fact, since private capital is seldom available for such projects, the government must foot the bill. Yet, when these industrial foundations have been laid, the backward nations with sound plans to develop their industries...