Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collins, inaugurated governor of Florida, delivered a speech unusual for its force and clarity. He said: "I want the people of Florida to understand that progress in business, industry and human welfare can only go so far with a ward-heeling, backscratching, self-promoting political system...
...progress is sure to run into a dead end if our citizens accept the philosophy that votes can be traded for a road or for a job for an incompetent relative, or for a favor for a friend or for a handout through a state purchase order...
...community integration has not proved popular. It breaks a paternalism that Creole workers have come to like, and it bucks the Latin American tradition of centralized rather than community government. The plan is also open to the charge that Creole is evading established responsibilities. The company replies that "social progress is accelerated by the encouragement of individual initiative," and insists that it will still pay its bills, e.g., tuition for workers' children. Company officials patiently look forward to the time when onetime company towns will be self-governing communities of self-respecting homeowners, and Creole will get credit...
...prize example among Dr. Abramson's cases is a woman of 35 who had made good progress in analytic interviews and had recalled dreams which brought into focus a problem of latent homosexuality...
DEFENSE PROFITS will be bigger under a new Pentagon directive affecting about $3 billion worth of contracts annually, mostly for aircraft Instead of limiting profits to a flat 5/o of costs, the Pentagon will give suppliers "progress payments" as goods are delivered, include not only costs of labor, materials and plant overhead but also an interim profit ranging from 6% to 11%. Profits will be subject to renegotiation later but estimates are that they will average about...