Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...special reason: of all MAP countries she is the only one ready to pay cash. But the arms deal was no simple buy & sell transaction. Until U.S. concessions opened the way for a settlement, it had seemed that one of the most bitter disputes in years might develop between the two neighbors...
Modest Approach. Thus last week began the 93rd meeting on Christianity for laymen in the Lower Saxony town (pop. 5,000) of Hermannsburg. There are nine other Evangelische Akademien like it in Germany, and together they constitute one of the most vigorous Christian activities to develop there since...
...answer, said CABoss O'Connell, was simply that U.S. planemakers were "naturally reluctant" to develop a jet transport ; they feared that they would not get enough orders to make up the development cost. "So long as military orders roll in," said O'Connell, "and Washington debates what it is going to do [about paying for jet transport development], there is little reason to believe that any manufacturer will enter into the jet transport field...
Though both RFC and McCarthy were mum on why he needed such a whopping amount, oilmen gossiped that he wanted to pay off his corporate debts (estimated to be upwards of $50 million) and use the rest to develop two promising new oilfields. Why had he gone to RFC? The fact that he had done so seemed to mean that he could not get the cash from private sources, since RFC lends money only when private sources...
Psychotic Robots. In the larger, "biological" sense, there is room for nervous speculation. Some philosophical worriers suggest that the computers, growing superhumanly intelligent in more & more ways, will develop wills, desires and unpleasant foibles' of their own, as did the famous robots in Capek's R.U.R...