Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers gone amuck in the world to fill that role) but rather a question of whether the character of any particular monarch merits his or her position. We grouse that no one should just be born to a position of such status. On the other hand, watching a person develop to fit his or her position is part of the pleasure of having a monarchy. In a way, it gives a human aspect to the institution of head of state which is not possible in an elected system where one head of state follows another like so many brands...
...nursing homes. A decade ago, Congress passed a major nursing-home reform bill, which did help to cut down on the use of physical restraints and tranquilizers. But in 1995 a quarter of the nation's nursing homes failed even to assess each patient's needs or develop individual care plans, federal records show. Even more failed to ensure sanitary food, and about 1 in 5 didn't provide proper treatment for bedsores...
Jiang: Since 1979 we have been trying to ensure that political restructuring and economic restructuring complement each other. Simply put, what we have to do is promote democracy and improve our legal system. Within the structure provided by the Chinese constitution, we will work to develop our democracy further and to strengthen supervision. Our purpose is to run our country according...
...even undergo body-wide traumas like chemotherapy--all the while knowing that a few eggs, banked years earlier, were preserving their ability to bear children. The very idea of menopause as a procreative cul de sac could be made obsolete. "This," says Dr. Joe Massey, a scientist who helped develop the technique, "stretches the reproductive field as far as you can envision...
...when he welcomes China?s Jiang Zemin for the most important Chinese state visit since Deng Xiaoping charmed Americans in 1979. "Clinton is dealing here with the biggest challenge facing the U.S. for the foreseeable future," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "It's a relationship that will develop well into the next century...