Word: develop
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...likely that 10 per cent of Harvard drinkers will later become problem drinkers or alcoholics. We may never notice their addiction, because it may take years to develop. One of the pernicious things about alcohol addiction is the length of time it can take to overwhelm a person's life. Your roommate who occasionally gets "silly" on weekends may, in 20 years, be a violent, broken alcoholic...
Although Fisher says the book did not sell very well, it apparently caught the attention of a few people that mattered. Soon Fisher was helping policymakers develop the Rogers Plan, named for former Secretary of State William Rogers, which was an attempt to defuse the 1973 Middle East crisis...
...country imports a relatively small percentage of its oil from Iraq and Kuwait, and from the whole Persian Gulf for that matter. Should Saddam cut off access to Gulf oil, it would certainly spell trouble for our economy in the short term, but we could use the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources, a project long overdue...
From his first Bellini-like and Giorgionesque paintings, through the classical certainties of his middle age -- such as the John the Baptist, a veritable column of vigor and controlled theatrical gesture -- and on to his late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps...
...Shatalin program, worked out with cooperation from the republics, represents a radical departure from the Kremlin's fumbling efforts in the past to develop a "regulated market economy" that would be subject to central control. At the heart of the plan is a scheme to privatize state-owned property. In what would amount to a vast redistribution of national wealth, large enterprises would be converted into shareholding companies; medium- and small-size businesses and shops would be put on the market; and land would be offered for sale to peasants. The Shatalin program also proposes the step-by- step deregulation...