Word: proceeded
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Dent in the Backlog. Putting fluorides to work on a test basis, the Navy has adopted a three-stage treatment. First, each patient is given a basin, a toothbrush, a small cup of pumice paste containing stannous fluoride, and a five-minute lecture on how to proceed. He brushes his teeth for ten minutes. Next, he is plopped into the dentist's chair. A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution. Third, the patient gets up to 15 minutes of instruction in how to make daily...
Last year Congress voted only $450,000 for "administrative purposes," prompting Johnson to announce in his State of the Union message that he would again seek the funds. The $12 million allocation, then, is hardly encouraging, since it will not enable the low-income housing project to proceed on any reasonable basis, and since it once again constitutes a rebuff to Johnson. In its meager appropriation and its virtual prohibition of supplements to suburban areas, the House subcommittee could very well bring the program...
...Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money. He, soon guessing the truth, is delighted. His efforts to squeeze as much money as he can out of the officials, and as much affection as he can out of the mayor's wife and daughter, provide the funniest moments...
This reasoning is an example of what philosophers call the fallacy of equivocation: what Shannon and Wiener, inventors of information theory, meant by "communication" is not what Moles has in mind. However, trying to apply a theory in new domains is fair game, so we proceed...
...Sounding the theme that the U.S. could have its boom and beat inflation too, he warned: "We must be alert to assure that the pace of our advance does not become too rapid, endangering the healthy stability and sound balance of our expansion. Yet to conclude that we must proceed cautiously does not mean that we should slam on the brakes or throw the economy into reverse...