Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff proposal gives utility companies the power to develop their own evacuation plans when state authorities refuse to develop off-sight emergency evacuation plans, said NRC spokesman Frank Ingram. He said that after the publication of the NRC proposal, there will be a 60-day period of public commentary, followed by a vote by five NRC commissioners on whether the proposal should take effect...
...refusals last autumn by Dukakis and Cuomo to develop evacuation plans for the Seabrook and Shoreham nuclear plants, located in New Hampshire and Long Island respectively, precipitated the NRC proposal, said state officials...
...amusing freak. Since that time, savants -- retarded and autistic people who have inexplicable gifts, usually in art, mathematics and music -- have been the objects of diversion and exploitation. But at a unique institution called Hope University in Anaheim, Calif., they are being trained to reveal their surprising gifts and develop self-confidence. Some have multiple handicaps: Paul Kuehn, for example, is blind, yet he has the ability to reproduce and create music and is one of the stars of a school group, the Hi Hopes, who have sung to thunderous applause at concerts from Disneyland and Las Vegas...
...college's slogan is "adult education through the fine arts." As Walker explains it, "We want to develop the whole person, and we use the elements of performance, music education, music therapy, drama, dance and art to enable our students to achieve new awareness, personal growth and change in their lives." She developed her approach while at Buena Park, where one of her students, Kuehn, was considered autistic and virtually untrainable. During a music period she mumbled under her breath, "Now what key do we do this song in?" Kuehn correctly piped up, "Key of G." His vocal training began...
...timing and its sponsorship. The drafting became serious in the summer of 1985, precisely when the Reagan Administration was on the verge of approving the Israeli plan to sell arms to Iran. The wildly contradictory policies toward two nations suspected of fomenting terrorism showed the Administration's failure to develop any consistent antiterrorist policy. One of the promoters of a Libyan invasion supposedly was Robert Gates, then CIA deputy director for intelligence. He is said to have written a memo in July 1985 plugging an invasion as a way to "redraw the map of North Africa...