Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year since Mikhail Gorbachev announced a sweetening of incentives for foreign investment in Soviet industry, many U.S. corporations have nibbled but none have bitten until now. Last week a Connecticut petroleum-engineering firm signed up for a $16 million U.S.-Soviet joint venture to develop control systems for oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Combustion Engineering of Stamford will supply the technological know-how, while the Soviet oil ministry provides equipment and labor. Although control over the venture is tipped 51% to 49% in favor of the Soviets, the pact offers something for both sides: Moscow gets access to badly needed...
...This year we're taking advantage of the personnel we have," said Tomassoni. "You put your power play personnel into your power play and develop it that...
According to special projects assistant Geralyn White '84, the Kennedy School would accord the status of "special student" to any alumnus who paid the requisite amount. "It's a program we might want to develop as a way of fundraising for the school," White said...
...became possible to publish the book because finally we understood that our society in such a moral atmosphere could develop no further," Rybakov said...
Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has joined with Edmund Muskie, Elliot Richardson, Harvard President Derek Bok and others to form a National Commission on the Public Service. The commission's hope is to develop leadership for the public sector. A member of the group is John Brademas, a Congressman for 22 years and now president of New York University. Says Brademas: "Leadership can be summed up in two words -- intelligence and integrity, or to use two synonyms, competence and character. We don't see those characteristics in Government today. Reagan and his Administration have established...