Word: nascent
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...resulted bought Brattle Hall, the large brick building on Brattle St. that now houses the theater. During the 1950s, the theater began showing repertory films instead of live productions. Hope, a 1955 Radcliffe graduate who declined to give her last name, said that, in the cinema’s nascent days, she and her college friends used to “dress up and go out to see ‘Casablanca.’” The Brattle during that time “showed everything that wasn’t mainstream Hollywood,” she said...
...broadcasting free of charge to users with mobile devices made by Samsung, LG and others, bypassing mobile networks completely. Mobile phones and television companies "are coming together and creating lots of questions like, 'Who owns the customer?'" says Richard Sharp, vice president of multimedia at Nokia. As with many nascent technologies, though, there are some hurdles to overcome before mobile TV goes mainstream. It's not yet clear, for example, whether consumers are willing to pay the estimated $650 (less if operators subsidize them) for TV-ready handsets. Mobile-TV broadcast companies also face the daunting challenge of gaining airspace...
...contrast to the frightening (alleged) slave revolt, New York’s nascent opposition party seemed comparatively innocuous. But the threat of a black uprising also meant that the city’s whites – even with the emergence of two-party politics – remained united. “New York is not America,” Lepore writes, “but what happened in that eighteenth-century slave city tells one story, and a profoundly troubling one, of how slavery destabilized—and created—American politics...
...proportion of economic output?has fallen by 83%, well in excess of the 50% decline experienced by the U.S. over the same period. Nevertheless, with China now Japan's largest export market, any weakening in Chinese economic growth traceable to the energy shock could do real damage to the nascent recovery in the Japanese economy...
...accord on what that meant. North Korea, which has stated it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself against a "hostile" U.S., is arguing that a deal must include removal of any U.S. nuclear threat in the region?a nonstarter with Washington. The North also wants to keep its nascent civilian nuclear program, but the U.S. fears that would mean Pyongyang could still sell the building blocks of nuclear weapons technology to terrorists and other rogue nations. The two countries also remain at loggerheads over the timing of aid given to the North in exchange for verifiable disarmament. Hill indicated...