Word: development
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...solution, according to most experts, is to stress the development of agriculture. Elliot Berg, who was coordinator of the African Strategy Review Group for a 1981 World Bank report, argues, "No continent or region or country is going to modernize itself and develop its resources unless it begins with agriculture." The problem, says the World Bank report, is not financing alone. It estimates that aid earmarked for agricultural projects in sub-Saharan Africa totaled some $5 billion between 1973 and 1980. Berg holds Western governments partly responsible for approving expensive and inappropriate projects in the first place...
Other changes at GM pushed through by Smith are no less revolutionary. His small-car strategy is the most diversified of any U.S. automaker's. He has launched the company's Saturn Project to develop a 45-m.p.g. model by 1987. In addition, GM has created alliances with four Japanese automakers. It has made large investments in both Isuzu and Suzuki, and expects to import 300,000 of their cars. Its agreement with Toyota to produce 250,000 cars annually in Fremont, Calif., was approved last month by the Federal Trade Commission. And GM has also quietly arranged...
When I first went to the Soviet Union in 1957, four years after Stalin's death. I was astounded how much independence of thought there existed under the crust of conformity, what eccentric ideas young Kussians had managed on their own to develop. Since then, many of these ideas have spilled into Soviet public life, the vitality and exuberance of which is concealed from sight by the regime's grip on the media. In addition, the Soviet government is discovering that the only way to increase productivity is to resort to contractual arrangements with individual workers and peasants. Thus...
Born and raised in Kansas City, Annapolis-trained Long, 63, spent part of World War II aboard the battleship Colorado. Entering the submarine service after the war ended, he received his first command at the age of 34. After a stint in Washington helping to develop the Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, Long went back to sea at the helm of the Patrick Henry, among the first of the new subs. By 1977 Long was a full admiral and Vice Chief of Naval Operations, and two years later he was made Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces...
...addition to expanding its markets, Villa Banfi is developing wines that are more upscale than Riunite. Directing that effort is Chief Oenologist Ezio Rivella, 50, the first Italian ever elected to head the Union Internationale des Oenologues in Paris. Rivella has helped develop new wine-production techniques that do not require additives like sulfur dioxide and allow white wine to be shipped abroad without alteration of its taste or color...