noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a development programme
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This project is a central part of the development programme for the area.
a development project
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Our aim is assess the environmental impact of new development projects.
a pattern of development
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Regular checks help to ensure that the child is following the normal pattern of development
a stage of development
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We have several ideas in various stages of development.
advances/developments in technology
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Because of developments in technology, minicomputers can now do what mainframes did in the past.
an exciting development (= a change that makes a product, situation etc better )
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This exciting development could mark the end of the long-running conflict.
anticipate changes/developments
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The schedule isn’t final, but we don’t anticipate many changes.
career development/advancement/progression
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A good job offers a programme of training and career development.
character development (= the process of developing characters )
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I thought the plot was boring and there wasn’t much character development.
child development
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She’s an expert in child development.
commercial development (= the building of houses, hotels, restaurants etc )
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The increased number of tourists has resulted in further commercial development.
development aid (= given to help develop poor countries )
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It’s one of the poorest countries in the world, but it has received no UN development aid.
economic growth/development (= when businesses become more successful )
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We have enjoyed a period of steady economic growth.
future development
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the debate over the future development of the European Union
industrial development/growth
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rapid post-war industrial development
intellectual development/ability/activity etc
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a job that requires considerable intellectual effort
joint development
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Both companies are involved in the joint development of a new medium-sized car.
product development
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The money will be used to fund product development.
rapid growth/expansion/development
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The industry is experiencing rapid growth.
research and development
ribbon development
the pace of development
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The pace of development in computer graphics is amazing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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In places the text is a little unsatisfactory but this reflects the early stage of development rather than the author's own expertise.
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Every psychotherapy process, early in its development , defines the basic questions it is trying to answer.
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One case where the inductive signals may have been identified is in early amphibian development .
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He also formed Kloss Video Corp., working on the early development of the large-screen projection television.
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Indeed the earliest suburban development preceded railway expansion by a decade or so in the big cities.
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A new Early Head Start program, designed around new research on early brain development , targets children from infancy to 3.
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Stability problems were evident in the early development stage.
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Through an important earlier development , the providers in the Eastern District had already anticipated the trend.
economic
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In this way, possible areas for economic development were identified.
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The government today is trying to combine preservation of indigenous cultures with economic development .
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Does government have a community economic development strategy?
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Day believes it will provide greater predictability in economic development efforts if all communities in Arizona have the same minimum wage.
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Objective: to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development .
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The administration clearly preferred not to have any federally funded programs directly aimed at local economic development .
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It was designed to achieve economic development in a region in which demographic increase consistently outstripped economic growth.
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Departments of Commerce changed from passive complaint bureaus for the business community to active promoters of economic development projects.
further
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The Council also requested to be kept informed of further developments in this field.
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These experiences are necessary for the development of moral feelings and further affective development.
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Transtab A further development of Transpower, incorporating an elongated stability element.
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This presents further developments in social movement theory and research.
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Taking into account both costs and functions, the better-value proposals are identified for further development .
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There is, however a logical progression from present finance functions through to further developments .
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It worked, it was adopted as a design worthy of further development .
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To this end three further developments are envisaged.
future
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The second type of analysis is the macro-economic approach, deducing future developments from past quantitative macro-economic observations.
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If the deal is completed, Rouse would immediately become a dominant force in the future development of Las Vegas.
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For all of these agents of environmental change, economic and political considerations are primary factors in their operation and future development .
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Whatever the outcome, s.61 style remedies are important for the future development of civil liability for insider dealing. 4.2.5.
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WordPerfect have found the multi-tasking capabilities of OS/2 valuable and see it as an important platform for future development .
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Your child's pre-school days and infant and junior school years are vital in his future development .
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The mental or spiritual body retains all the potential of the individual for his or her future development .
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One result would be an agreed agenda for action for that specific nursery, with pointers for future development .
important
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The other important development has been the glycosylated haemoglobin level.
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The United Kingdom is one of the leaders in open systems, which is a very important technological development .
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One form of play that is particularly important in the development of children explores human roles.
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All the important developments within the kinetic theory took place after this falsification.
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These two properties provide a most important development within the Region, albeit that they are very different in their aims.
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However, two important developments occurred to derail the peace process.
industrial
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Calcutta's industrial development in the 1950s occurred without a corresponding expansion in regular employment.
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Countries not so reliant on oil because of lack of industrial development can be hard hit indirectly.
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She was previously senior industrial development officer with Middlesbrough Borough Council.
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None of the world's poor countries can afford to curb industrial development .
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This would require farmers to apply for planning permission as is the case with other commercial or industrial developments .
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Important industrial and development projects were also either postponed or cancelled.
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Statutory controls should be introduced on industrial and commercial development , and resources made available for the removal of existing inappropriate developments.
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Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution, the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times.
intellectual
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In a crucial explanatory passage the narrator tells us: This marks a great step in Lok's intellectual development .
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Levels of intellectual development vary considerably among children.
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Motor and intellectual development are inseparable.
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As such, intellectual development is adaptive.
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There are various factors which may affect the emotional and intellectual development of their children.
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There are just better and better placements as intellectual development proceeds.
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The argument must still confront the anthropological and linguistic evidence for intellectual development as well as capacity in different cultures.
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Accordingly, differences in prior experiences can contribute to individual differences in intellectual development .
joint
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The product is the result of an agreement signed in October 1991 for joint development of an FRAM-compatible radio frequency transponder chip.
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Several of the schools are proposing to undertake joint development work with local colleges.
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The company will maintain a strategic manufacturing agreement with the startup and joint business development arrangements.
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It's more joint development of the applications and systems they need.
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A joint development between LogIT and the Lego Robolab might just help to break down the science and technology interface.
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The new car is a joint development between Honda and the Rover Group.
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It could be a joint development or a pricey investment by a third party.
late
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As they walked to the terminal, Wiggs ran through the latest developments .
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Data relating to morphogenesis by small bowel isolates of later development , are limited.
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One of the most exciting concepts coming through Charnos' latest product development is the control top with lycra.
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Capital is devoted to the creation of desires and needs which can only be fulfilled by the latest developments of the market.
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It would be nice to believe that the Health Secretary spends all his time understanding the very latest developments in heart-lung transplants.
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The latest development in the technology is to build in the recorder as well, making the whole thing highly portable.
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A later development introduced a press to compress the hops in each pocket which was held in a pocket sling.
major
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The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire.
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Throughout any major development project, there have always been development problems.
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And although London's Docklands has seen major development , questions are being asked about its nature.
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The city also reached agreement with a major development firm to market the industrial park area.
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The latter have not yet really taken root in movies, but may be one of the major developments of the 1990s.
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But in spite of this, the recession and the planning policies adopted for teacher education prevented any significant major development .
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Each of these interventions of the Celts proved their importance by producing major developments in the political systems which they attacked.
new
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Hadley is NatPower's new business development director but happens to share his name with the Responsible Independent parliamentary candidate for Wimbledon.
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In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development .
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Increasingly funds for new developments had to be found from redeployment of services and savings.
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Within the year, the new development director had brought in three times her salary.
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As in all the other fields of actuarial work, the profession has provided seminars and conferences for debate on new developments .
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Whatever the new development was, it could wait.
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Do you anticipate new developments in the future?
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Now this, to Reich, is a new development .
personal
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Is caring for the child's personal development to be relegated to overtime?
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Barber argues that these traits can be traced back to three components of personal development and socialization.
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Nevertheless, adolescence is the time when ego-identity development inevitably dominates the personal development of the individual for a while.
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But it seemed to me that law school and the profession itself were fairly open to personal development .
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It can advance the school's agenda by assisting academic and personal development .
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And the culture has little use for the idea of personal development through parenthood.
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A new trust fund has been launched to help social workers and other professionals train in psychodynamic learning and personal development .
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Individuals frequently work in a number of different company environments and experience a steady stream of training and personal development .
political
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But it would at least offer a chance of a positive political development .
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Allowances must be made for differences in national temperament and political development .
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Also John Lloyd on Soviet economic and political developments .
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This is influenced by interest rates, economic and political developments or expectations.
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Do not these apparently daily murders make plain and stark the need for political developments to take place?
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More careful attention has been paid to the Kadets and to political developments on the Right.
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It is important to contextualise Nizan's political and ideological development at this juncture.
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Changes in the relationship between health and wealth occur over time and between regions, along with economic, political and cultural development .
professional
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Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development . 11.
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Do you have a sense of humor?-Are you interested in professional development ?
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It is possible to obtain a high percentage of your continuing professional development hours by this method.
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Team teaching, or something very like it, is an important element in the continuing professional development of the teacher.
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This module provides a research framework to help teachers examine some aspect of their own professional development .
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The moratorium on national curriculum change gives a small opportunity for professional development courses to grow.
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This ongoing professional development is based on the fundamental premise that solutions and strategies lie in teachers' own expertise and experience.
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Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience.
rapid
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This stage is characterized by the development of language and other forms of representation and rapid conceptual development.
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The only other period of such rapid development is adolescence.
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But the rapid leapfrogging residential development of Phoenix has resulted in benefits for some.
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Where fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals with high added value can be produced by biotechnology there will be rapid developments .
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The problem is not a function of demographics but of rapid development coupled with a lagging education system.
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But the issue was fascinating because of other things, heralding the rapid development of technology in the next century.
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In Phoenix the community development block grant was implemented within this context of rapid development.
recent
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In fact, many recent developments have served to widen the gap between North and South.
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Another comparatively recent development is computer technology.
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The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments .
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Although only a recent development , it is already being used extensively for interactive publishing.
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A recent development with current accounts has been the introduction of debit cards.
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How have families headed by women been affected by recent economic developments ?
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Abstract guides to recent developments in specific fields are also published in each issue.
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Our resorts, in the quieter bays of the Bodrum Peninsula, are little affected by recent developments .
regional
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A dimension of increased decision-making concentration which has attracted particular notice concerns the effects on regional diversity and development .
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The progressive dismantling of regional development policy since 1979 has moved more swiftly than steps aimed at deregulating the housing sector.
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In some cases, such as the regional development grant, there was little scope for re-allocation as spending was demand-led.
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Lindsay Pepperell, regional business development manager, Wimpey Environmental, Warrington.
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Others will be in centres of regional development , local authorities and commerce.
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Specialised bodies, such as regional development agencies are also extremely important.
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The third lesson is that local economic development can not take place without an overall strategy for national and regional development.
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Crucially, this instability hinders regional development , incites repressive governance, and compounds the poverty on which militancy feeds.
social
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Reading and moral development Much of the content of social development is concerned with ethics.
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He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs.
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Sets out basic design principles for parking provision in social housing developments , highlighting the potential for increasing housing densities.
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In fact, one can not be sure to what economic and social developments the opinion is referring.
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Without industry and rapid social development , the eastern lands were simply too unattractive and severe to Germanise with any ease.
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The institutions of economic, social and community development invented in the nineteenth century have kept pace with neither need nor aspiration.
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In particular, the instrumental approach locates government growth in a broader pattern of social and economic development .
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The internalization of rules, values and judgements is an important part of social and moral development .
sustainable
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The environment is our future. Sustainable development is the phrase that seeks to make this clear.
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Analyse policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development .
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The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
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We believe that this what is required if we are to achieve environmentally sustainable development .
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Discusses the conflicting arguments for and against sustainable development , with particular reference to architecture.
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The fashionable creed of sustainable development panders to that sort of thinking.
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The internet can and should be harnessed for sustainable development .
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We had a long debate in Committee on sustainable development .
urban
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That was most graphically illustrated when Sheffield was arguing about an urban development corporation.
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It also provides money, drawn partially from fees paid by developers, to protect land from urban development .
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A further category of urban development was the growth of trading and financial centres.
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In my judgment, the real failure is that the private sector is not active enough in urban development .
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Middlesex sought to prevent urban development , with the secondary purpose of preserving amenity and providing recreational facilities.
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Developing Urban Quality Economic development in Glasgow requires the provision of high quality business premises and a quality environment.
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This attractive model of urban development has proved remarkably elusive on the ground.
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Planning and land policy; Urban and regional development .
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business
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Matthew Lutz, 61, vice chairman and business development manager of Magnum, who held a similar position with Hunter.
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Creating a business development group may be necessary to consolidate knowledge and foster learning, but it is not always enough.
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Quarmby will now be responsible for business development and managing director of group services, coordinating services to all group companies.
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Malcolm said Loughborough had been innovative and show modern thinking in its approach to selling and business development .
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They found their champion in Wayne Rowley, who was then the director of new business development for the chamber.
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He said he wants to coordinate more business development around the arts center and work to establish an industrial park.
career
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The need to develop systematic succession planning linked to individual career development . 9.
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This led to ongoing negotiations regarding the school board engaging me as a consultant to conduct inservice career development seminars.
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We also began tracking the career developments of film-makers commissioned through New Directors.
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Since career development is mandated by state and federal categorical funds, the program is impossible to jettison.
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He continued to regret the limitation on his career development imposed by what he saw as his confinement to Art teaching.
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If I stayed on I would have to content myself with twenty-seven years of horizontal career development !
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Job shares - Women's forum report back Main Items 1. Career development proposals 2.
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The thought of accepting horizontal career development for the next twenty or thirty years is a numbing thought.
curriculum
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Further, the curriculum development role had four main versions: curriculum manager; curriculum consultant; curriculum enhancer; curriculum facilitator.
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They supported curriculum development and professional development for teachers and work-site mentors.
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Eraut's argument is appealing particularly in the light of recent experience of curriculum development , outlined in the previous section.
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They were also concerned with curriculum development , advisory support and in-service education.
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Significant correlations between lesson activities and pupils' perceptions might be applied in teacher training and curriculum development programmes.
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However, although the director had talked about curriculum development the emphasis was very much on the accountability dimension.
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The influence of process and research models for curriculum development can also be detected in a number of proposals for insider evaluation.
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Four lecture courses assessed on course work; two curriculum development exercises.
officer
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In addition to preparing for recruitment the development officers began to prepare for the training and employment of support workers.
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Neither development officer found any marked degree of antipathy or anxiety about the project at this stage.
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United's youth development officer was called in by Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan on Friday and told he was being fired.
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But after some counselling from the development officer the situation improved and the worker was able to continue in post.
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Along with their cases, development officers also had their support workers.
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The development officer said she felt there was little she could do except visit occasionally.
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There is already a strong commitment to developing expert practitioners in Medway, as demonstrated by the appointment of staff development officers .
plan
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The excavation of the Viking site at York was so important, though, that the development plans were changed.
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The vote means that the project will be included in the current 10-year development plan .
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Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable.
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We support the emphasis placed here on understanding coastal processes prior to development plans being drawn up.
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New commitments from the sustainable development plan would be incorporated in the White Paper's tables for subsequent monitoring.
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In considering applications for planning permission, planning authorities will take into account the provisions of the development plan.
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This plan , together with the Structure Plan will provide the development plan framework.
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In the three years since these procedures were introduced the standards of development plans and the annual statements have varied widely.
product
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The international automobile industry is a typical case where shortening the product development lead time is recognized as a valuable competitive weapon.
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They are usually part of executive teams that are involved in strategic planning or new product development .
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In return you get the benefits of staff training, purchasing, product development , marketing and leasing services.
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There are significant differences between vendors offerings, and future product development plans.
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CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
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This matters most in fuzzy, creative processes such as product development .
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Oddly, the most successful firms spent proportionately less on product development .
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Sound background in concept research and product development .
project
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Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects .
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The program thrust local government into a proactive role as a deal maker in economic development projects .
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A preferred time for introducing the procedure is in the design phase of the development project .
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These factors plus preferential marketing arrangements and external financial support for development projects have all contributed to land degradation.
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The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine.
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A new course in a number of respects resembles a research or development project .
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Figure 5.3 is a decision tree for a hypothetical development project to develop and market a new product.
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Bull will lead co-operative development projects for a range of symmetrical multiprocessing systems based on its multi-processing expertise.
software
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Products Usually the product package is created for use when software development is completed and the software is ready for issue.
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Others manage computer operations, software development , or data bases.
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Qualiparc is built upon the Uniface software development environment and costs from £5,000 up.
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Spry Inc has reorganised, dividing its system integration and software development operations into two separate companies.
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Some cost estimators now specialize in only estimating computer software development and related costs.
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It is conventional wisdom that software development lags several years behind the hardware.
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All projects involve a significant element of software development .
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encourage
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And fourthly, subsidies and loans help provide finance to encourage development .
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Western training programs are not grounded in a philosophy that encourages the systematic development of unusual forces.
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A great deal can be done by government to help and encourage such development .
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They also encourage the development of false class consciousness.
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Various devices were used to encourage the development of separate identities between the two groups.
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The next step is to safeguard these changes by formalizing patients' rights and encouraging the development of self-advocacy movements.
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This will encourage the development of fruiting laterals.
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Motorola aims to win industry standard status for the software to encourage development of new mobile computing applications.
house
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Considers the relationship between housing potential, urban quality and sustainable development for different categories of housing developments.
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The age-oriented community was conceived as a combination housing development and amusement park for active seniors.
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Looks at the economic and technological forces affecting the nature and location of work, and the implications for sustainable housing development .
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Roads, fields, and housing developments made it more and more difficult for sheep to move between ranges.
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Part 1 reviews the forces shaping housing development and settlement patterns.
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The housing associations also gained the freedom to raise their own funds for new housing developments .
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Sets out basic design principles for parking provision in social housing developments , highlighting the potential for increasing housing densities.
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No bureaucrat could know more about problems in a public housing development than the people who live there.
lead
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Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures, involving more sophisticated techniques.
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Victory led to the development of variations.
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It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis.
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He identifies six stages of experiences or development that lead to the development of a vision and leadership: 1.
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In time this will lead to the development of faults.
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Both factors may be part of a complex cascade of events that ultimately leads to the development of duodenal ulceration.
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The knock-on effect of the advancement of the women's game has also led to refreshing developments at girls' level.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
personal development
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A new trust fund has been launched to help social workers and other professionals train in psychodynamic learning and personal development.
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All these contributed much to a sense of fellowship and corporate social identity as well as providing opportunities for personal development and individual enrichment.
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Barber argues that these traits can be traced back to three components of personal development and socialization.
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Individuals frequently work in a number of different company environments and experience a steady stream of training and personal development.
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Individuals will be responsible for their own personal development plans which will be measured against agreed standards of business performance.
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Is caring for the child's personal development to be relegated to overtime?
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Of most importance to teachers were affective aims relating to the personal development of children.
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Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development. 11.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Developments in radar and engine designs have changed the shape of the plane.
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A child's emotional development may be severely damaged by a traumatic experience in its early years.
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a new housing development
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Climate was an important factor in the development of classical Greek culture.
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NATO allies will be discussing developments in the Balkans.
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New developments are springing up all around the town.
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Several hundred acres of wetland have been sold for development .
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The class teaches teenage mothers the stages of child development .
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The country has experienced impressive economic development in the past decade.
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The former cropland has been turned into housing developments and shopping malls.
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The new development at the edge of town is aimed at first-time buyers.
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The program promotes economic development in the inner city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If that section remains, it could help reveal just how much sprawl development is really costing us.
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Most of the early developments occurred within the United States.
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Rather they derive from associated events in experience that antedate linguistic structure both phylogenetically and, in man, in individual development .
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The idea of development is married to the idea of the nation-state.
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The venture group not only generates new ideas, but is also responsible for development and exploitation of them.
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When they are first learning to talk, we support, watch over, and extend their oral language development .
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Women participate in poorer jobs and in the tertiary sectors, areas which have suffered the most from peripheral capitalist development .