Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university is the perfect place to link medical advance with progress in the social sciences, because here there is time for experimentation with ways in which to approach the problem of helping the largest number of people," he said...
...practice: the almost ritual invocation, whenever a labor dispute develops, of the magic number, 3.2. Indiscriminate use is beginning to obscure the economic reasoning behind this figure. The reasoning is simple: To prevent inflation, no wage increase should exceed the percentage rise in labor productivity in the industry involved. Progress in productivity if of course uneven across the economy, varying considerably from industry to industry. Citing the national average of 3.2% during every dispute is simply not logical; nor is it fair to the workers involved, who may deserve more of a wage increase than the national guidelines would grant...
...issue. Any attempt to comprehend Indonesian politics is welcome, and Henry S. Parker '68 describes accurately the mysterious events of the attempted coup last October. He presents the ultimate challenge faced by the Army leaders in control: to unify and nationalize Indonesia on a basis of economic and social progress. This is a goal which Sukarno, for all his chauvinism, failed to achieve. The choice of books to be reviewed, two interpretations of the Vietnam conflict by war correspondents Robert Shaplen and Marguerite Higgins and Richard Hofstadter's essays on paranoid American extremism reflect the appropriate and timely taste...
When negotiations had gone four days without any progress, the Transit Authority got a ruling from the New York Supreme Court that the strike was illegal, and that Mike Quill and eight other T.W.U. officials should be jailed. Said Quill: "The judge can drop dead in his black robes and we would not call off the strike. Personally, I don't care if I rot in jail...
...Alabama pea-and-cotton-belt town of Tuskegee, where 75% of the 7,000 population is Negro, has for some time enjoyed a reputation as one of the Deep South's harmonious havens of racial progress. Two members of the five-man city council are Negroes, and the town has long been influenced toward liberalism by the presence of a community of Negro scholars and students at Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington. Last week Tuskegee's self-satisfied image received a mortal blow. One of Tuskegee Institute's 2,751 students, Freshman Sammy...