Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated $2.8 billion price to be paid in part out of money the space agency will save during the present launch hiatus. With a reduced launch schedule, the President said, the shuttle fleet will no longer carry commercial payloads, giving private industry a strong incentive to develop its own launchers...
...Indeed, there were many times during its tortured course that the bill really did seem ready for burial. It was repeatedly brought back to life by both Democrats, who control the House, and Republicans, who rule the Senate. Neither party dared to risk resisting an idea that seemed to develop a momentum all its own -- nor to hand the other party a powerful issue in an election year...
Drug-free schools. This fall, declared Reagan, "everyone should be made aware from Day 1 that drugs on campus used or sold by anyone are a thing of the past." He instructed Education Secretary William Bennett to develop proposals that would enlist school administrators, PTAs, college presidents and student organizations in cracking down on drug...
During a decade of tremendous growth, Sunbelt cities attracted millions of people from the depressed urban centers of the North. All the ills of urban ghettos went with the newcomers, and many Southern cities, with their underclass populations suddenly exploding, became ripe environments for gangs to develop and flourish...
...grown, it has become more of a test: you are not only supposed to know the voice that you may not have heard for a month but to know it immediately. Any hesitation is apt to lead to a pained, "You don't even recognize me." One has to develop strategies. Thus...