Word: developed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter tried to revive his faltering presidency by campaigning for his energy program, which he thinks may be the key to his salvation. In response to congressional objections, he agreed' to compromise on a basic issue. He withdrew his proposal for an $88 billion, ten-year program to develop synthetic fuels and settled for a more modest funding of $22 billion for a two-year plan. He also stopped insisting that the Federal Government operate synthetic fuel plants; they would remain in private hands, with advice and assistance from the Government...
Some families seem to be lightning rods for cancer. Malignant tumors of the breast, colon and other organs appear in family members with distressing frequency through the generations. Though these families can be identified, there has been no way to predict which individuals will develop cancer and thus no way to assure that their cancers will be detected early and treated. But now, for one such family, all that is changed. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, doctors for the first time have discovered an inherited chromosomal defect that seems to be a marker of cancer within a family...
...declined to comment on this question, and indeed on the entire program, a representative from the Ford Foundation said Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches, is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program. President Bok, coincidentally, gave an honorary degree to Tutu last June...
Carmichael said Tutu is organizing a committee to take note of "the needs of black South Africans" and to help develop a scholarship program, He added, however, that "there is nothing...
Stevens said there are a few individuals and committees in South Africa that could help to locate students and to develop the program...