Word: development
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Much of the appeal of the Olympics centers on individual heroes, yet heroism in the Games is lightweight; it bears none of the mythic armor of professional sports. With professional athletes, allegories develop with the records; Mantle was pain, Unitas skill, Ali poetry and power. The Olympic Games are too brief for spectators to construct a folklore. Personalities like Nadia float to the top for a few days, but only as they are attached to performances. The hero and the act are one. If an allegorical hero is to be found in the Games, it is youth in general...
...more modern predicaments are "those of the poor relations on the U.S. Olympic team, competitors like Rick McKinney, 30, of Glendale, Ariz., and one of the best archers in the world. He has won the world championship twice and the national championship six times. If McKinney should develop a finger blister, the U.S. also has Darrell Pace, 27, of Hamilton, Ohio, Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow...
...advantage of getting any kind of talks going with the Soviets. At the same time, he seems unlikely to agree to anything that would block his dream of a Star Wars defense system to shoot down at tacking ballistic missiles from space - a scheme that will take decades to develop if it can be done at all. One State Department official summed up the U.S. bargaining situation: "I'd be surprised if we can define much in advance just what a U.S. position would really be. But the level of interest here has certainly soared...
...series computers last year, far fewer than the average 1 million Commodore 64s sold annually. The best guess by experts is that Tramiel's first marketing move may be to try to reverse those numbers by drastically underpricing Commodore's products. Later, perhaps next year, he might develop a model that would compete against more powerful machines made by Apple and IBM for the sophisticated home user. The general's campaign has just begun...
Many of us understand that to incorporate [1.4 million] Arabs against their will in Israel will simply endanger the future and destiny and character of Israel. We would like to see a joint plan comprising all countries for the economic and social development of the Middle East. Our vision is that Israel will excel not just as a military force but in offering aid and support to pacify the region, develop its people and move ahead together...