Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just to show you that they are not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston-Providence Area. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.* BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE NAME OCCUPATION Easy Diff. BEGINNING Easy Diff. ENDING George Adams, sales sup. 244 175 756 928 Laura Anderson, student 292 290 1824 950 Ruth Atran, student 413 290 1536 1682 Jeneth Antonucci, cashier 269 232 1250 1930 John Angier, inv. sec. 240 230 1158 1015 Walter Butler,accountant 362 349 912 830 Rodney Bond, student 358 265 1700 1250 Nancy Brenner...
...feel I've made some progress," said Romney at week's end. Indeed, his staffers now have hopes that the overwhelming Nixon support in New Hampshire may be as shallow as it is wide. Even Nixon's forces are skeptical of one early poll showing Romney behind 5 to 1. Nixonites feel that this is merely a ploy to make even slight gains seem a Romney triumph. They may well be, since enthusiasm for a Ronald Reagan write-in-which would siphon off Nixon strength-is evaporating. As if this were not enough woe for Romney...
Among his major campaign promises, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu pledged himself to root out government corruption at the national and provincial levels. Last week Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees and a recent visitor to Viet Nam, delivered his own progress report on Thieu's efforts. He painted a grim picture. "The government of South Viet Nam is infested with corruption," Ken nedy told the World Affairs Council of Boston. "It is almost impossible to go to Viet Nam and speak with any can did American or South Vietnamese citi...
...credits his period as a billboard painter, following his departure from the University of Minnesota, with pointing him toward both the idiom and the mystique of the open road. He uses cars, planes and the notion of motion generally to convey what he considers basic American traits: devotion to progress and prodigality, record-shattering creativity and waste...
...have a powerful new instrument for psychic investigation--LSD--and it seems of utmost importance to explore fully the ways in which LSD may be used to accelerate spiritual progress. And that is what we will...