Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afraid I was going to graduate knowing 500 people casually but not knowing anybody well," says Browning. "Here you have the chance to develop much stronger friendships than you do in the Houses...
...learn to cook amazing meals, but more than that you develop a sense of community [through the chores]. It's like a family here--you really get to know the other co-op residents and they form your support network," says Browning, adding, "Besides, if you were living in a house, you'd spend that time hanging out with your friends anyway. Cooking dinner with someone is just another way of hanging out. In fact, around here you have to guard against hanging out too much...
Morgan was surprised, then agitated, to discover that many of Atari's senior executives who were working to develop and sell personal computers had no use for them in their own homes. Admits Marcian E. Hoff Jr., Atari's executive vice president for product development: "I don't use a computer for home finances, and I don't know anyone who does...
...public obviously wants candidates put through their paces rather than carried into office, but it is a hardening process without any real rules. So candidates develop rote answers to predictable questions, and interviewers try to knock them off balance. These impromptu answers become the real television discussion of the issues instead of the candidate's full speech that is never heard...
...politicians they did not know "just about the same as people who presumably know about their actual positions and performance." Body language may be the new communications signal in campaigns. It may not be a onetime aberration that an actor became President. Perhaps all future politicians will have to develop these qualities. One just hopes that the content and wisdom of their views will still matter...