Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under the auspices of John Hopkins psychologist, started up the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an organization aimed at identifying mathematically gifted students. Since then, Duke, Northwestern. Arizona State, and the University of Denver have organized talent searches modeled after the CTY experiment to identify precocious, intelligent youngsters and develop their untapped academic potential...
...controversial big-ticket items. Some $8.2 billion was earmarked for 34 new B-1B bombers. The 1985 budget also seeks $5 billion to buy 40 MX missiles. Congress provided $6.2 billion for the MX over the past twelve years, but until fiscal 1984, the money was only for development. Also requested: 48 F-15 fighters (at $22 million apiece), 150 F-16s (at $15.1 million) and 720 M-1 tanks (at $2.1 million). There was a new, high-tech entry: $1.8 billion in seed money for President Reagan's Star Wars plan to develop a space-based system capable...
That confrontation constituted the sum total of Lauro's one-act play produced off Broadway in 1981; one can see why she was encouraged to develop it to full length for Broadway. Calvin and Ginny may be symbolic representations, but they are also potent characters in their own right. The student's basic gentleness makes his rage, when it surfaces, all the more terrible to behold. The teacher's harassed decency makes the brisk cheer with which she tries to sell deceit to her self and her students the more poignant...
...following remarks are not intended to imply that the complex of issues referred to for convenience as "Esperanto" is of more importance for Harvard humanists than such things as conservation, or a woman's right to choose. I do maintain, however, that the attempt to develop and establish a universal second language is more than casually interrelated with humanism, that the selection and use of such a language remains an item of unfinished business for humanists at large, and that the issue is particularly relevant to humanist students at Harvard...
...afraid I was going to graduate knowing 500 people casually but not knowing anybody well. Here you have the chance to develop much stronger friendships that you don't at the Houses.' --Sarah Browning...