Word: develop
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...steamy couple, played by Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan, develop their near fatal attraction in Deceptions, a made-for-cable movie that aired on Showtime last month. It was perhaps the definitive example of the hottest new ticket on the cable dial: the film-noir thriller. Gotham, a moody mystery about a Manhattan detective (Tommy Lee Jones) investigating an enigmatic woman (Virginia Madsen) who is supposed to be dead, was Showtime's highest-rated made-for-TV movie in 1988. Third Degree Burn, starring Treat Williams as a private eye hired to tail another mysterious blond (Madsen again...
Squamous-cell carcinomas also develop from keratoses on long-exposed areas of the skin, affecting about 100,000 Americans each year. They take the form of red or pink warty growths that may scale or open in the center and ooze. Squamous tumors are more dangerous than basals; they grow more rapidly and can metastasize, sometimes with fatal results...
...skinned, light-eyed people of north European extraction, particularly those with red or blond hair and freckled skin that reddens and burns easily, blisters and peels. Caucasians with dark hair and eyes and more even pigmentation, as well as Hispanics and Asians, are somewhat less susceptible, and blacks rarely develop either carcinomas or melanomas. The rate of melanoma among blacks, while increasing, is only one-fiftieth that of whites...
...list of stopgaps. It is as though his natural cautiousness has discouraged him from putting forth any daring ideas that might later prove flawed. Instead, he sticks to time-worn exhortations: Schools should lobby vigorously for government funding. Administrators and government officials should work together to develop "effective leadership." Trustees should be more aggressive in setting priorities...
...crusade against its teachings. The Twitchells' sentence followed the pattern set in the previous cases. The parents were given ten years of probation, and they were ordered to submit their three other children to regular medical exams and take them to a doctor whenever signs of serious illness develop...