Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story on the Administration's plan to develop space weapons created the impression that I am an enthusiastic supporter of the expensive Star Wars proposal. I have frequently said that I favor protective defense only if it can be executed inexpensively. I see little value in the extremely costly and probably ineffective program you describe in the sentence preceding the statement of my support...
...What Carol is doing is giving us the tools to learn how girls develop intellectually--on their own terms," Trudy J. Hammer, associate principal of the school, said in a prepared statement recently...
Enormous ideological and moral differences are at the root of the difficulties in relations with the Soviet Union. Nothing will make these differences disappear in the foreseeable future. However, we should aim to develop three types of relations: exchanges and contacts that benefit both sides, arms negotiations, and a high-level dialogue that will enable the participants to explain their intentions and so avoid misunderstandings...
...driving force, it is probably Robert Pittman, 29, a former radio program director who formatted stations to fit the tastes of the listeners it had, and the listeners it wanted. He did the same thing when he started to develop MTV in mid-1980. "Where is the Woodstock generation?" Pittman asks. "They're all old and bald." Pittman, who is suited and blow-dried, went after what he called "the TV babies. The set is part of our lives, we want it to respond to our every need and desire." He corralled an ad agency that promptly recycled...
...helped develop PBS's healthy roster of news programs, including the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Inside Story, Frontline and the critically acclaimed 13-part documentary series Vietnam: A Television His tory. NBC News, by contrast, has been losing ground. Two weeks ago, the brilliant but un profitable Overnight left the air. Today, once the sunrise champ, now has to fight the CBS Morning News for second place, be hind ABC's Good Morning America...