Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team, however, recognized the challenge of playing those squads. In this series, Harvard was only battling itself--trying to get its rotation set, giving the players an opportunity to start and develop a positive attiude...
...panel also recommended Cornell develop auniversity-wide policy on computer abuse
...represent technology at its peak. But the aircraft may represent an even loftier accomplishment in diplomacy, since it has become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal...
...public may consider pesticides the No. 1 safety issue, but to Government officials and food experts the main problem is the way food is handled at the end of the supply chain, in restaurants and at home. Each year more than 7 million cases of illness develop as a result of contaminated food. Most of these ailments are minor, but others, such as meningitis and toxoplasmosis, are serious enough to cause 9,000 deaths. The economic costs in medical bills and lost wages and productivity add up to $10 billion. That is an enormous waste since most of the illnesses...
...thorough evaluation of the effects of smoking on women with cervical cancer, was published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of researchers at the University of Utah Medical School. It found that women who smoke are about three times as likely to develop cancer of the cervix as nonsmokers. But the study, which also sought to assess the damage done by exposure to passive smoke, produced a surprise: women who inhaled passive smoke for three or more hours a day were not only more likely to have cervical cancer than those...