Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong for us to be constantly looking at the statements that are made by Soviet leaders. First of all, we have got to understand our own interests. We have to proceed then to develop our own long-term policies. This Administration has been doing that in building our economy and our defenses and, at the same time, offering to negotiate on the important issues that face our two countries. If the Soviet Union chooses not to negotiate, we have to have an alternative. And that alternative is our own strength and the ability of the U.S. to pursue a policy...
...What must we do on our side to develop longterm, stable relations...
...Theodore N. Vail, though, who invented the Bell System. Brilliant, sweeping, subtle, an organizing genius with uncanny foresight, Vail was boss from 1878 to 1887, during which time he put together all the pieces of the modern goliath. He built up an engineering department to develop new phone technology, and a manufacturing department to build telephone equipment. All the while he systematically sought to exclude non-Bell phone companies from his network. But Vail felt thwarted by Boston financiers more interested in fast profits than his far-reaching ideas, and so he quit at 42 and went into retirement...
Then it became evident where Bart Smart had gone wrong. Maybe he had been thinking of the character the Bulldogs had displayed by never giving up during their eight straight losses; more likely, he was referring to the superior character all Yalies develop by taking 36 courses instead of Harvard's measly...
...What we're trying to do is develop a practical road map for the pitfalls and opportunities of transition," Trucheart said...