Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office of Education is formed "for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States . . . and of diffusing such information...
...Ranging Progress. What impressed the experts was that the advance ranged across just about every sector of the market. In 14 consecutive sessions, gains by individual stocks outnumbered the declines, and many a stock in the course of the week hit a new high, not merely for 1967 but for 1966 as well. Blue chips Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, Procter & Gamble and even beleaguered A.T. & T. went up; so did glamor stocks Itek, Scientific Data and Ampex. Where there were big drops, there was an obvious reason. American Broadcasting Co. fell 141 points following an announcement in Washington...
...indicate the importance and urgency of this effort by quickly running through the principal campaigns now in progress or in prospect. (I should like to say at once, parenthetically, that a major ground for hope for success in these efforts is the quality of the alumni leadership we have been able to attract to head them. These leaders' acceptance of such responsibility testifies both to their loyalty and devotion, and to the importance of the causes they have agreed to serve...
...denies that today's underdeveloped nations will have to use considerable planning and controls if they hope to make progress, but Balogh's case is too extreme, too rigid. Harold Wilson's friend seems to overlook the resounding success of Western Europe's market economies. He also ignores the fact that the Communist world, prodded by such economists as Russia's Evsei Liberman and Czechoslovakia's Ota Sik, is rapidly loosening state controls and adopting Western methods of enterprise. Above all, he fails to mention the recent advances of free enterprise from Chile...
...goes deeper than the mere forcible separation of the races, so integration goes deeper than simply placing Negroes and whites in the same schools. Ostensibly integrated schools in New York have managed a less overt yet potentially far more dangerous form of segregation all their own: so-called "special progress" classes, which in practice do little more than isolate white students from Negroes and Puerto Ricans...