Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownell soon displayed a real talent for efficient administration-and if there was anything the Department of Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell himself...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which picked Iron Liege as a possible champion the day he was foaled (March 11, 1954), hopefully followed his progress with photo and pen to the winner's circle at the Derby...
Such military considerations must not be permitted to paralyze the emergent economic functions of NATO. These functions will rapidly overshadow other objectives, and antipathies over military strategy cannot be allowed to interrupt such progress. It is to this goal that America must yield, and must make concessions to Europe, if only to prevent political tensions from destroying the delicate, nascent, economic agreement...
...Jordan's meaningless borders, its desert wastes, its desolate economy, or its restless population that are "vital" to the U.S. What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which to work for better solutions is only the start, but it is a necessary start. The young King who was bringing it about, with some faltering...
...only 38% corporate tax v. 52% paid on profits made in the rest of the world. The Administration has been trying to have the lower rate extended to all U.S. firms doing business abroad. But shortsighted U.S. firms have disagreed so strongly over who should qualify that little progress has been made. Even without tax relief, the Government can help to entice U.S. business abroad in many other ways, such as joint investment with private capital in risky areas, use of more firms as foreign-aid contractors, expansion of protective treaties...