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...industrial economist William F. Steel addressed the Eighth Annual World Development Conference, a two day symposium at the Kennedy School discussing the role of small scale enterprise in development. Seminars on development today will follow last night's speech...
However, small enterprise has not only played a role in economic development in China, but in the developing countries of Africa as well, Steel, an executive at the World Bank, said...
...Improving income opportunities for the lower ranges of income is tied to the development of smaller firms," said Steel, referring to the role smaller enterprises play in providing employment for poorer Africans...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...from leaking, they are designed to keep the rocket's exhaust gases from escaping through any gaps in the joints. These are especially vulnerable under the immense forces generated at lift-off (the entire shuttle bends momentarily in what engineers call "the twang," and the nearly half-inch-thick steel casing of the boosters balloons slightly above and below each joint). In the Challenger disaster, the exhaust gases had apparently burned through a protective putty (signaled by the white smoke) and jetted past both O rings, presumably because they had not seated properly in their grooves at blast...