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He is a former union official who has developed strong bonds with the teachers union during his long board tenure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Over the past quarter-century, Ms. de Graaf and Mr. Drost argue in their book, he has developed a view of himself as the latest, and perhaps greatest, in a centuries-long line of Russian autocrats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Germany's MicroHarvest has developed a confidential process which speeds up the fermentation process.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The company has developed three generations of quantum hardware, including its Helios quantum computer, which it says puts it on the path to building a fully fault-tolerant quantum computer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Howard Friedman, a psychologist at the University of California at Riverside, has developed what he calls the Affective Communication Test to measure this ability to send emotion, to be contagious.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell