Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poggio's project is part of a decade-long effort at MIT to develop computers or robotic devices which can duplicate all the major capabilities of the human body, including sight, hearing and speech comprehension, touch, manipulative ability, locomotion, and reasoning power...
...teams of T-men on the trail of the same master counterfeiter. But Freidkin kills off the tortoise (a sympathetic older cop on the eve of his retirement) in the first reel to provide Chance, his amoral anti-hero, with a stock revenge motive; yet he then fails to develop this element of the story. He cut out the emotional heart and balance of the book, and you can only assume that this is exactly what he wanted to do. Freidkin is telling us once again that there is little distinction between the cops and the criminals...
...this effort the houses develop close relationships with their neighborhoods. "When the Robert Neighborhood plays the Peabody Neighborhood in floor hockey, it's also Quincy House playing Cabot House," HAND Coordinator for Cabot House Eliot C. Heher '85-'86 says...
...think it's just a fact that the Calgary people like the program here at Harvard," MacDonald says. "They like how Coaches Cleary and Tomassoni develop players--there's a lot of potential for people to improve out of Harvard, and they like what they've gotten...
...part Charles' restlessness may reflect a desire to redefine his public role. Observes Royal Biographer Robert Lacey: "He has to develop a strategy for the ten to 20 years before he takes the throne. He cannot spend them politely expressing interest in problems." The Prince, indeed, seems on the verge of becoming an activist. He spends considerable time and effort on the "youth initiative" of the Prince's Trust, a program that helps young people start their own businesses. Troubled by high British unemployment rates, he would like to extend the scheme to every major city in the country...