Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Construction work on the Med Area power plant, already delayed by more than a year when Harvard had to hire a new engineering firm to improve the design developed by its original firm, will not proceed beyond the foundation for at least another month...
After a lengthy controversy last year over whether the city should ban recombinant DNA research, the City Council in February followed the recommendations of a citizen's review board to allow the research to proceed under certain conditions--one of which was the creation of the BHC to monitor the research...
Will the military government proceed with its plan to hold national elections on Oct. 18? "By jingo, yes," declares Zia, "unless the heavens fall." Despite Bhutto's incarceration, his Pakistan People's Party announced last week that it would contest the elections; it called on party members to turn their grief "over the arrest of Party Chairman Bhutto into an enthusiastic campaign." The army still talks as if it expects to go back to the barracks by the end of October. But if the election results are inconclusive, the soldiers may yet decide to delay their departure...
...liberal arts education, copied all over the country by other colleges. In the enthusiasm of the moment, Rosovsky says, the Faculty didn't worry about mechanics, and the program became increasingly less organized as course offerings proliferated. In these more cynical '70s, Rosovsky says, reformers are likely to proceed with greater caution, trying to sidestep the pitfalls before they arise so they won't have to clean up the mess later...
Another common objection: human sociobiology is long on theory, short on proof. Some sociobiologists concede that large chunks of the theory may have to be modified as studies proceed...