Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owns an experimental and commercial oyster farm-told a news conference: "Our country is in deep trouble. The Great Society has become a Great Flop." Although she dodged specific questions with her famous dimpled smile, she did offer some strong general opinions on two inescapable issues. "It is not progress for the largest, strongest military power in the world to be mired down in an apparently endless war with one of the smallest and weakest countries in the world," she said. Though she wants the U.S. to "honor our commitment" in Viet Nam, she argued that it should be done...
...progress," she went on, "when some of our citizens participate in bloody riots and burn down whole sections of cities; when pornography becomes big business and when our children are exposed to it." A mother of three-two girls, 13 and 19, and a boy, 15-she resigned last year as program chairman of the San Francisco Film Festival because the selection committee decided to show a raw Swedish movie called Night Games, portraying, among other things, sodomy and incest...
Before he could come close to his goal, some 10,000 Communist terrorists had to be subdued in a bitter guerrilla war that had begun nine years before the British moved out. But since then, the country has made solid economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...progress, Malaysia still has serious problems. Its rubber-heavy export structure is vulnerable to price fluctuations, and last week, with rubber down to 160 a pound, Malaysia was forced to seek more orders from the Soviet markets, which already constitute its biggest buyers. And the country's large and enterprising Chinese minority still threatens to cause trouble over the establishment of Malay as the official language. In East Malaysia - the Kansas-sized states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo's northern coast - Communist terrorists based in Indonesia harass rubber plantations and lines of communications, diverting money and manpower...
AMERICANS believe in numbers. As a democracy, the U.S. chooses its leaders statistically, so to speak, by the simple process of counting votes. Numbers measure the economy, record social progress, identify people on credit card rolls and bank accounts. "In a numerically conscious society," says Rand Corp. Researcher Amrom H. Katz, "progress is measured by numbers, not by quality...