Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extent of the playground takeover was dramatized recently when Gregory Vaughn, 33, a high school coach and former Queens College star, was asked to referee a neighborhood game. Vaughn, who had helped many youngsters develop their court skills as an incentive to go to college, made some calls that angered the gamblers. He was followed off the playground and fatally beaten by a known thug. The stakes in the contest were estimated...
Organizers say that women at Harvard-Radcliffe are not adequately trained to take on active leadership roles, and the conference is also designed to develop proposals for changes at Harvard-Radcliffe that would foster such skills...
...Charles Ferguson, a former IBM analyst who is now a research associate at M.I.T.'s Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, argues that the U.S. semiconductor industry is collapsing because start-ups have siphoned off talented engineers from larger firms. Example: in 1981 a group of Intel executives started Seeq Technology (1987 revenues: $44.6 million) to develop sophisticated memory chips. Four years later, three Seeq employees specializing in such chips quit to form their own company, Atmel...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
RECYCLE IT. Many communities are taking a new look at this clean and, in some ways, most efficient solution. Illinois Governor James Thompson last week signed into law a bill requiring 18 of the state's largest counties, as well as metropolitan Chicago, to develop by March 1991 comprehensive waste- management programs that emphasize recycling. Said the Governor: "We're simply running out of room, out of time and out of money for facing these ((garbage-disposal)) problems in the same old way." EPA Administrator Porter has set a goal of having 25% of U.S. garbage recycled...