Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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"We are naive, but not so much so that we feel we will make a considerable contribution to African development. All any of us hope to do is provide some labor, skills, and knowledge over a limited time," he added.
Outdated Attitudes. Willy Brandt, who learned the difficulties of dealing with the Soviets as mayor of West Berlin, bridles at suggestions that he is giving away too much to the other side. In his opinion, he is simply relinquishing West Germany's claim to outmoded bargaining positions. "Our aim...
Community Loss. A few local governments have been more effective in rehabilitating abandoned homes, but their piecemeal approaches come nowhere near coping with the dimensions of the problem. Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority has plans to clear 170 acres for 500 new row houses and apartments and to rehabilitate...
Some of the houses deserve to be junked, but the abandonment of others is a loss to the community because they could be salvaged. Cities complain that they lack the resources to cope with the problem. Frank S. Kristof, director of the housing-programs division for the New York State...
Conant very nearly did it all. When he left the laboratory in 1933 to become Harvard's 23rd president, his work on the structure of chlorophyll had gained him an international reputation. Before he resigned 20 years later to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, he had moonlighted in...