Word: developing
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...caste system: half the teams are out of the running on opening day. They cannot compete financially. Minnesota and Montreal and Kansas City and Florida are minor league teams. They don't just play like minor league teams. They function like them. As soon as their young players develop into stardom, they get bought up and shipped out to the likes of New York and Boston...
RUDY GIULIANI Disses unarmed victim of cop shooting. Will NYers develop "zero tolerance" for his antics...
...OPEC's success is setting the right price. "OPEC has been clever in keeping its own target price around $25 a barrel," says Baumohl. "They know that if they drive the price into the $30-to-$35 range, there'll be an incentive for further oil exploration and to develop energy alternatives. But that incentive isn't there if they keep the price at the $25 level." And that's still 2.5 times the January 1999 price level, which means that even if the price at the pump falls, it won't be by much...
ROCKET SCIENCE In the future, missiles loom as the key Chinese weapon for intimidating, and perhaps attacking, Taiwan. That's why Taiwan is eager to develop, with U.S. help, a missile shield. Such a system, however, would use much of the same difficult and costly technology that doomed the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980s. Perfecting it now will be daunting--if not impossible. EDGE China, which could try to use the threat of missile attack to lure Taiwan back to the motherland...
...believe that one of Anthropology's major challenges is to develop a hypothesis that explains this critical change," Wrangham said. "And we think our hypothesis might be right...