Word: developing
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...completed quickly," he wrote to his wife Mamie. "Entirely aside from longing to return to you (and stay there) it is a terribly sad business to total up the casualties each day--even in an air war--and to realize how many youngsters are gone forever. A man must develop a veneer of callousness that lets him consider such things dispassionately, but he can never escape a recognition of the fact that back home the news brings anguish and suffering to families all over the country...War demands real toughness of fiber--not only in the soldiers [who] must endure...
...purpose machines prevail, or will new appliances emerge with multiple functions? It's a high-tech version of Lamarckian evolution, in which new characteristics are acquired through demand. You can expect cell phones to sprout color monitors so they can be used to surf the Web, and PDAs to develop telephonic capability. When the convergence is complete, the theory goes, we'll have a single device combining in one small, supersmart package the qualities of a PDA, cell phone and pager--allowing you to schedule, e-mail, call, beep and surf without missing a beep. That could happen...
SNUFF & SMOKELESS TOBACCO It's more than disgusting. It's deadly. The next time a ballplayer comes to the plate with a chaw in his cheek, remember the cancers of the mouth, lip and tongue he might develop. A truly big-league health risk...
...achieve a profit margin of 24% (others "barely eke out 1% to 5%," says the Yankee Group's Craig Ellingsworth), another Nokia strength is a corporate culture remarkably free of politics and oversize egos. That lends itself to fruitful partnerships, such as Nokia's deal with AT&T to develop a phone for the launch of the carrier's Digital One Rate plan in late 1997, which was crucial to establishing the Nokia brand in the U.S. Ollila, a married father of three, explains, "When you come from a little country this far north, you learn...
...would make it part of the larger planning process, working with the mayor in order to develop an overall plan that makes sense for everyone," Rudenstine says. "It's very hard to predict what the needs of Harvard and the community will be 50 or 100 years from...