Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million times I've heard the story about kids who visit UHS before Christmas and complain they have mono. The doctor at UHS does not find it. They go home for Christmas break; the disease has had time to develop, and their doctor at home finds it. Then they come back here and say 'UHS missed my mono,' when that just isn't the case...
...Ideas" are not developed to the point where they deserve this name; they are only alluded to in passing, in an often impenetrable idiolect. As we read, Barthes tells us that "reading is the permanent hemorrhage by which structure--patiently and usefully described by Structural Analysis--collapses, opens, is lost." His writing on reading is not even Barthes' beloved skidding-of-words effect but rather an effect of neglect, which frustrates reading, which hastens reading, which promotes erasure: bad faith. Read slowly, if you can. Linger over each "gustative sensation" and remember that "the submission of the gustative sensation...
...Washington's antipathy was the result rather than the cause of this pro-Soviet stance. Even as the U.S. was still supplying aid to Nicaragua during the year after its revolution, the Sandinistas chose to develop powerful party, military and internal-security organs that mirror those of the Soviet system. The nine-man directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) is fashioned after the twelve-member Soviet Politburo. The comandantes make decisions communally, keep their inner maneuverings secret and issue unchallengeable edicts. The Sandinista People's Army seems a miniature replica of the Soviet armed forces, relying exclusively...
...steadily aging population, the emphasis on a fit, natural look, and newly broadened product lines. As night cream follows day, one thing in the best-selling new prestige lines leads to another. "You don't just get a one-shot, one-bottle solution to facial problems," notes Ledes. "You develop a regime...
...Lewis, former U.S. Transportation Secretary, and William Davis, former Ontario premier. Their investigation diplomatically divided responsibility for the problem between the two nations, but recommended that the U.S. take bigger steps toward a cleanup: a $5 billion, five-year effort, with costs split by the Government and business, to develop technology for burning coal more cleanly. The huge quantity of coal burned by the industrial and electrical plants of the Ohio Valley is a major source of airborne sulfur oxides that return to earth as acid compounds...