Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kellogg says that it is spending $500 million to modernize its main plant and that the counterespionage strategy was necessary to guard its technological secrets. The retooling is part of an effort to develop cereals for new market niches. In the past three months, Kellogg has introduced two products to appeal to health-conscious adults: Just Right and Raisin Squares...
...freshman until a guidance counselor urged him to pursue physics "because I think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them: being named a Presidential Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and a doctorate in physics from M.I.T., where he helped develop specialized lasers. Along the way he acquired impressive skills as a saxophonist and fifth-degree black-belt karate instructor...
...Weintraub already considers his video camera, electronic tablet and IBM PC AT to be tools of his trade, enabling him to "talk to his patients through a picture." The technology, he says, stems from "the thought that you can capture a human image and develop the software to manipulate its parts." Weintraub captures the image of a new patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs...
...nosed bureaucrats. Even before the report had been acknowledged by the SDI office, one human cog in the military-industrial machine was busy refuting its conclusions. Speaking on the condition that he not be identified, the official ventured that, in his opinion, the Russians would not be able to develop a fast-burn rocket for at least fifteen years...
...would hope that the world's oldest democracy could understand the remoteness of the goal which its present Administration would like to achieve. American ingenuity may have enjoyed its triumphs, but science has never before been asked to develop a technology immune to progress. Future thinkers and further technological developments are destined to challenge a space-based defense system, and whether they succeed in 10 years or 20 is of relatively minor significance...