Word: development
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from no controversial issue: England's strategies during World War II, nuclear warheads, the possibility of biological warfare. In each case, Dyson gives his exacting rationale for the stances he has adopted. His conclusions are always responsible, often noble, and occasionally naive. For instance, he ascribes our failure to develop safe nuclear reactors to contemporary scientists' inability to have fun inventing them. And as a solution to the energy crisis, he proposes that we somehow clone trees to yield gasoline...
That seems too stern a view, however. After years of more or less ignoring the oppressions of the Shah, the U.S. had good reasons-including the familiar strategic and economic ones-to develop friendly relations with the new Iranian regime...
Purl is an example of postcrash syndrome among airline personnel: a deep trauma that combines survivor guilt, depression, rage and an array of physical symptoms ranging from digestive problems and hypertension to sleeplessness and heart ailments. Some survivors develop phobias or panic when they hear sounds that remind them of the crash, and many are so worn out by the continuing anguish that they say they are simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury...
...problem in the past, says Johnson, is that when executives are responsible for coping with the grief of employees, they become so involved and work so hard that they develop the same symptoms as the grief victims themselves...
...covers political primaries as horse races instead of contests of men and issues, and devotes most of its time to handicapping them. That is the valid complaint of political scientists about the 1976 campaign coverage. Why not talk more about the issues? The fact is that the candidates quickly develop, and tirelessly repeat, a pat little passage of reverberatory obfuscation on any controversial issue...