Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to prove that a baby has a distinct personality is a little difficult--the babies he studies do not know how to talk yet. So in order to guage their interactive capabilities, Brazelton had to develop a standard scale of babies behaviors and overcome a long tradition which said babies had no personality...
...atmosphere on the set was uneasy. Director James Brooks, making his first film,, derailed MacLaine just before shooting started by informing her, after two years of having her develop the character as a Texan with a thick Southern accent, that Aurora was instead a native of Boston. Says MacLaine: "I went into mild hysteria. That one change meant she would have to have a different makeup, a different wardrobe. I asked questions about Aurora's history that were never answered." Adds MacLaine, with a hit of affection: "No one would call Jim soft." Brooks says, "Whenever you talk about...
...ACSR extensively studied and issued a unanimous report on the shareholder responsibility issues raised by Harvard's investments in companies doing business in South Africa. The Committee first concluded that South Africa presented unique issues of shareholder responsibility and that Harvard should therefore develop special policies for its investments in companies doing business there (hereinafter referred to as portfolio companies...
...Harvard, in cooperation if possible with other institutional investors, the IRRC, and the administrators of the Sullivan Principles, should develop information on the direct involvement in apartheid of U.S. firms, including those supplying computers and electronic equipment, petroleum, and motor vehicles to the South African police and military. It should, on a multilateral basis if possible, seek through dialogue, publicity, and other means to bring about the elimination of such involvement. Harvard should in cooperation with others if possible, develop specific principles defining the types of direct support for apartheid that should be eliminated. If portfolio companies fail to achieve...
President Bok said recently he commissioned a committee to develop the program because he felt most of the people teaching professional ethics come primarily from with in their fields and do not have sufficient back grounds in philosophy...