Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitious expansion-and rubbed raw nerves all over town and gown. Spending freely, he has literally taken over the city's Oakland area, buying up the Pittsburgh Pirates' Forbes Field and the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married. He now aims to super develop Oakland into a vast cultural center costing $250 million...
...private economy from achieving its full potential and making its maximum contribution to the common good. But to be effective, the approach must be forward-looking and realistic?not mere nostalgia for the past or a rearguard action to preserve positions of narrow self-interest." If businessmen do not develop such an approach, warns David Rockefeller in his earnest and low-voiced way. or "if they do not concern themselves with the full spectrum of problems civilization faces, they will find themselves, a few years hence, living in a very different and less congenial world...
...better high schools are getting still better. Logic, Greek, Portuguese and a fifth year of French will be taught this year in Lake Forest. Ill. With Harvard's help, Capuchino High School in San Bruno, Calif., will develop a new physics course incorporating history, philosophy and the cultural impact of science. In Beverly Hills, which is starting a twelve-year foreign language setup, the high school even boasts two summer campuses in Spain and Austria...
Three weeks later, just as perfunctorily, health officers at New York's Idlewild International Airport took the certificates at face value. They gave Missionary Orr a card on which was written: "As a precaution against introduction of smallpox: If you should develop suspicious symptoms of illness (such as chills, fever, weakness, loss of appetite, diarrhea) within the next seven to sixteen days, present this card promptly to a private physician or to health officers in your community. This is required by law." The word smallpox was in large letters. Orr pocketed the card and promptly forgot...
During the summer adult weevils lay eggs in the seed pods of the puncture weed. In the spring the growing larvae feast on the seeds, killing them. Later the weevils even develop wings for a short time and follow seeds that the plants may have thrown to the wind. If there is a large crop of seeds, the weevils flourish along with their food supply. If there are more weevils than plant seeds, the little bugs simply die off. Thus nature maintains a delicate balance that allows neither the puncture weed nor its weevil to stir up a population explosion...