Word: developer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rescue and start a Southeast Asian war. But even without overt aggression, Boun Oum and Phoumi faced bitter days ahead. Though Phoumi declared that all he wanted was "a neutral Laos," the Communists were smarting for revenge, and from the Pathet Lao came an order of the day: "Develop guerrilla warfare powerfully. Destroy supply lines, communications and transport...
Various political scientists proposed that the Youth Corps be a "ward of the " for which Congress would set up in send (as it does for the Smithsonian Institute) and allow the agency to develop more or less...
...kinds of photographers is the Board a haven. It is just that, in fact, for those who have never seen the inside of a camera. For this, as for all Boards, you need absolutely no experience whatever; so if you have often expressed a longing to photograph well, to develop, fix, enlarge, engrave, and mount pictures, and to design photography layouts for features, translate this longing into action; of such stuff are great men made...
...that lecture, he said that more scientists in government would make it easier for us to develop from an "existentialist" society into a "future-directed" one. Scientists, who have a sense of the future by virtue of the changing, historical character of their disciplines, can provide an antidote to our "existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think...
Progress Abroad. Tabler runs into more resistance to new ideas among U.S. building inspectors than European. "Europeans are eager to accept any new idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained...