Word: development
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...John F. Enders, who during nearly 50 years as a Harvard scientist won wide acclaim and a Nobel prize for helping to develop vaccines against polio, measles and mumps, died Sunday night at his summer home in Waterford, Conn. He was 88 years...
Harvard has only one returning offensive or defensive lineman, which means that to challenge, the Crimson must develop strength and cohesion up front...
From the same point of view we approach what is called the SDI research program. First of all, we do not consider it to be a research program. In our view, it is the first stage of the project to develop a new ABM system prohibited under the treaty of 1972. Just think of the scale of it alone--$70 billion to be earmarked for the next few years. That is an incredible amount for pure research, as emphasized even by U.S. scientists as well. The point is that in today's prices those appropriations are more than four times...
...today. Having won technological independence after the Revolution, it has long been enjoying the status of a great scientific and technological power. This enabled us to blaze the trail in space and to undertake space research on a large scale, to acquire a reliable defense potential and to successfully develop the country's productive forces. Incidentally, how are we to understand the following inconsistency in the U.S. reasoning? To substantiate increased military spending, all they do in the U.S. is talk about the fantastic achievements of the U.S.S.R. in the field of technology. When, on the other hand, they need...
...arms control: Unless the U.S. agrees to stop work on its Star Wars program, which aims to develop a shield against atomic warheads, "it will not be possible to reach an agreement on the limitation and reduction of (offensive) nuclear weapons either . . . Thus, if the present U.S. position on space weapons is its last word, the Geneva negotiations will lose all sense." (The reference was not to the forthcoming summit but to arms- limitation talks already under way in the Swiss city.) But Gorbachev was significantly more flexible on the issue of defensive research than his negotiators have been...