Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Comparisons between Country and another American realist film, Places in the Heart, are perhaps inevitable. While both movies depict a family's struggle to hold on to its land in the face of greedy bureaucracy, Places uses this struggle as a tool to develop plot and character. Country, on the other hand, in its overly anxious attempt to convey a political message, fails to give any depth to its characters and leaves us mere ideology in the place...
...obsolescent. The H-6, for example, China's only bomber of note, is based on a 25-year-old design, has a limited range (less than 3,000 miles) and is not capable of penetrating a sophisticated air-defense network. So far, China has been unable to develop either an effective modern fighter-bomber with nuclear-delivery capability or a technically sophisticated fighter...
...Center for Business and Government, the Energy and Environmental Policy Center, and the new Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy "will develop an in-depth analysis of components in these problem areas," Belfer adds...
...while it can take years to develop a new formula, some students are living in storage closets. Determining whether more dramatic charges, such as a radical reworking of the housing policy or construction of a new House, are in order could take far longer. Even if their methods remain imperfect, College officials and masters should seriously consider increasing the flexibility of the various elements in the housing system to remedy the immediate difficulties...
...attitudes of the parents are another matter. As the controversy continues, those in a quandary may derive some reassurance from Barbara Fry, principal of Wakefield Forest Elementary School in Fairfax County. Says she: "Of course we want to develop a child's formal learning skills. But in the end, some children just need to be children." -By Richard Lacayo...