Word: developing
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Gore lives in those weeds. On health care, he and his staff struggled to develop a program throughout the summer, talking about the future of medicine, how the human-genome project would be completed in his first term, how it could transform the health-care landscape. On Aug. 13 they met at Gore's office. On Aug. 18 they met at his house. "I want to go as far as I possibly can," Gore told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy...
Last week at Somersworth High School in New Hampshire, for instance, some poor kid asked him a simple question about how to develop leadership skills. Gore hurried over to the boy and stood too close to him, looking every bit like that one guy you end up trying to avoid at the party. And by the time he approached what must have been Point 6B in a frightfully organized answer, several students appeared comatose...
Just as women had to learn mentoring and networking skills when they joined the workforce a generation ago, men today need to pick up some personal skills if they want to develop their emotional lives fully. Women have learned the value of intimate friendship and the relief that comes from talking things out. Websites, professional women's organizations, book groups and even the car-pool line at school provide opportunities for women to meet. Men would benefit from the same support, but it can be harder to find...
...talk about their lives openly, as women have learned to do. Farrell, like other relationship therapists, offers suggestions on how men and women can better talk with each other. But I feel that before men can change the way they relate to women, it will help for them to develop their own friendships with other...
...think the presence of homosexual members within the fraternity would change the dynamic of the group," Bove said. "As a chapter we would not exclude a person based on their sexual orientation. If the brothers can get along with a person and feel that they can develop a strong friendship with them, then they are admitted to the group...