Word: nascent
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...April is the cruellest month, breeding the first signs of summer out of the dead land. But April will be especially cruel next year, for the roots of the rarest lilac have been dug up, and whose fair bloom will welcome the nascent summer never again...
...NASA was actually founded in 1915 and at the time was known as the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics - or NACA. Its job was to keep the nation abreast of the latest developments in the then-nascent technology of powered flight. NACA was established with good intentions but operated mostly as a bureaucratic backwater, a government body that couldn't hope to keep up with a rapidly evolving private industry. In 1957, however, all that changed. That was the year the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik, the first Earth satellite - and in the process, scared the daylights out of the U.S. President...
...nascent school is already attracting attention after a year, but according to Venky it will be a decade-long project to transform Harvard into a preeminent engineering school...
...many ways it also highlighted how much this war-scarred country has changed over the 19 months that Petraeus has been at the helm of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq. These days, alarm over sectarian bloodletting spiraling out of control has given way to heated politicking, nascent reconstruction efforts and grumblings over the lack of basic services like clean water and reliable electricity. Still, the spike in violence over the past few days - some 70 people have been killed since Saturday - highlights why Petraeus has repeatedly said it's too early for "victory laps in the end zone...
...economy also showing signs of weakness, there's little doubt that how Beijing handles issues of dissent and social instability in the post-Games period will have a lasting impact on China's future. And though not everyone shares his sunny outlook, Bequelin remains optimistic about China?s nascent civil society, whose development was temporarily put on ice in the lead up to the Games. "It's a battle in which Chinese are trying to get government off their backs," he says. And what's being fought for by people like Zhou is access to information and the right...