Word: developer
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Hundreds of towns will face layoffs as top military contractors slash their payrolls and cancel deals with smaller firms. Weapons manufacturers will scramble to develop new commercial products and expand markets for the military goods they will still produce. For many companies, the shifts will require fundamental changes in operating habits as firms accustomed to serving a free-spending Pentagon learn to compete with more efficient commercial producers, especially Asian ones...
...might not have been necessary. "Our founders saw religion as the enemy of progress," says Hartman. "They wanted to create an indigenous, secular Israeli. Religious concerns were ceded to the ultra-orthodox, who have never understood the need for Judaism to incorporate democratic values." Because Israeli society failed to develop a compelling spiritual option to replace the victim-oriented philosophy of the East European ghetto, Labor's present leaders are constantly beholden to a religious perspective antithetical to all they value. As a result, they regularly lose both religious and electoral battles. "They are wonderful when talking to Barbara Walters...
...October 10, 1931 editoral in The Harvard Crimson said, "it is hardly necessary to state that a personable tutor, one who has the ability to interest his individual pupil, will develop into a more human, more understanding professor, than a young Ph.D. who has advanced to the stage of an occasional lecturer, but who cares only for his own scholastic advancement...
Early treatment of open-angle glaucoma with eyedrop drugs like levobunolol hydrochloride, which Bush is taking, slows production of the aqueous humor and relieves the pressure. Eventually, however, many patients develop a tolerance for the drugs and must switch medications. Occasionally, surgery is needed, though in Bush's case probably not for many years. This glaucoma is easy to overlook, since it has no overt symptoms. But doctors are becoming more vigilant, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology now recommends that everyone over 40 be tested every two years...
...Develop local organizations and educational programs to impress upon people the value of nature's genetic diversity