Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect time to sign, and it is hard to gainsay their decisions. With most pro prospects starting their apprenticeship in the minors around age 18, the Harvard hopefuls would be way behind the game if they waited until their graduation at 22. By playing only in the summers, their progress toward a degree will not be interrupted, and they will get a good idea of their chances of making the majors Both Peters and Welz are interested in graduate work, and if they don't progress in two summers of minor league ball they can forget their dreams, keep their...
South Korea's progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...
Solvay will also remain in family control for the foreseeable future. Meeting in Brussels, the 1,800 partners agreed with courtly Baron Rene Boel, their managing director, that accelerated technological progress and increased competition made it necessary to seek public capital. They voted to ante up $40 million more themselves. Eventually Solvay partners will reap a four-for-one stock split, and since not all of the new shares will be fully negotiable, the family will remain the biggest shareholder in the chemical complex that grew from Ernest Solvay's 106-year-old process for making chemical soda into...
...accord emerged in Washington from a threeday, closed-door meeting of the 20 executive directors of the 105-nation International Monetary Fund and deputies of the "Group of Ten" industrial powers.* While U.S. negotiators expressed some doubts and reservations, IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer called the decision "great progress" toward expanding world monetary reserves. "We have an orchestra now," he said, "although not everyone is playing the same notes...
...varsity heavies begin at 4:30. The crew will practice for 45 minutes, then stroke silently along the banks up the lake to the start. As they pass the crowd there will be some murmurs, but most of the crowd's attention will be on the race in progress. Or their date. Or beer-cooler...