Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More cases appeared in scattered barracks. As usual, the medics could not trace the paths by which infection spread. Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick. There was no way to predict which few men would develop a life-threatening infection that would race through the bloodstream and attack their meninges-the covering of the brain and spinal cord...
...appearance on Russia's television network, U Thant told an estimated 40 million viewers that the U.N. is "facing a very serious financial crisis." What's more, he added, "I am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and their leaders want the United Nations to develop into a really effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this noble objective, it is up to all of us to try to find a solution to get the United Nations out of the crisis facing it today...
...ready when it counts-at the Olympics in October." Back home, a Russian sports publication reported: "The fact that we lost can be explained by the unusual-for our athletes-meteorological conditions called smog." There was something else. Despite their fantastic sports program, the Russians have apparently failed to develop much in the way of young athletes. The same faces appear year after year, and they are getting old and tired. This year's Russian men averaged two years older than their U.S. counterparts; the women averaged almost seven years older. Explained a weary Russian veteran...
...selling spot. The side effects of Crest's leap were consider able: a few fringe toothpastes were forced off the market, other brands' advertising budgets soared to keep up with Crest, and almost everybody in the business hurried back to the laboratory to develop a fluoride toothpaste...
...Robert Ryan, apparently hoping that audiences would confuse qualitative accomplishment with mere surprise that the stars could say the lines at all. Then in 1962 the Ford Foundation gave $503,000 to Stratford to help finance a wintertime school in speech, dance, fencing and so on, designed to develop a permanent company with all the depth, facility, and technical skill of an English group...