Word: progress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progress comes slowly, Murray said. Shewarned that students who are "set to change theworld" would have to learn to be content if theycould only "change one law, or an election...
...flight was also a profoundly intimate marriage of science and dream, progress and exploration -- what, in fact, the New World had always stood for. "You have made us feel kin to those Europeans five centuries ago who first heard news of the New World," Lyndon Johnson told the astronauts by telephone aboard the carrier Yorktown. "You've seen what man has never seen before." One of those things, which was to grow in significance in forthcoming decades, was the earth's finitude: with Apollo 8, humanity had found a godlike perch from which to examine its collective limits...
...wake of these controversies, administrators emphasize their committment to improving the revolutionary "New Pathway" curriculum and to promoting student projects like the U.S.-Soviet exchange program currently in progress...
...disturbing sign of the new times popped up last week, when the Government reported that the U.S. trade deficit surged in November to $12.5 billion, up from $10.3 billion the previous month. The stalled progress in narrowing the trade gap brings into question a central assumption of U.S. trade strategy: that the weak dollar will continue to shrink the deficit by making U.S. exports cheaper overseas and imported goods more expensive for American shoppers. But U.S. imports just keep on rising. That partly reflects what some economists have begun to call "hysteresis" -- a fancy term for the notion that...
...special report on the progress of the killer epidemic. New infections are down in gay communities but up dramatically among intravenous drug abusers and their sex partners...