Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course those running for president, no matter how much they try to convince the voters, don't consider themselves to be regular Joes. In fact, they develop a messiah complex. How could they not? The candidates spend a year listening to their own voice listing the reasons they, and no one else, should be president. No doubt they convince themselves, if no one else. But then a president doesn't need to be a messiah; he or she just has to be a responsible human. And perhaps once we have realized that, we will start voting with our minds...
...sixth-year Harvard coach is trying to help Duncan develop confidence in her turn-around jumpers down low near the basket...
...home ownership extended to the townships on the basis of 99-year leases. In April 1986 the government scrapped the hated pass laws, which required blacks to carry documents stating where they could live and work. That tended to give blacks increased confidence about trying to build, buy and develop properties and businesses in districts where they were permitted to live. Late last year the first black freehold properties were registered...
...runner's menstrual cycle. The response appears to have a healthy effect. In a separate study of ten rowers at Harvard, Frisch found that active women produce a less potent form of estrogen than their sedentary counterparts. Result: breast and uterine tumors that depend on the hormone cannot develop as easily. In addition, athletes lack excess body fat, which can predispose people to diabetes...
Dukakis does not develop easy relationships with fellow politicians. Last fall several Governors told Dukakis they considered him the most able of the Democratic candidates. When he pressed them for endorsements, they made excuses and backed away. They admired Dukakis, but together they decided he was too hard to get close to. They wondered whether in a showdown, his politician's instincts would be the same as theirs...