Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Polling places are almost always overcrowded, badly organized, requiring long waits. Way back in 1634, Massachusetts switched from voice voting to paper ballots. Today, most Massachusetts precincts still use paper, and so do a majority of the nation's other 173,000 precincts, despite the fact that electronic progress has already bypassed even the familiar automatic voting machine...
...interest in making known to this conference its intention to make available over the next ten years credits of up to $1 billion." The announcement caused a sensation easily equaling the response to Dean Rusk's statement the week before that the U.S. would continue its Alliance for Progress contributions now running at a rate of $650 million a year. Alba got thunderous applause, and the delegates passed a "vote of appreciation" by a margin of 18 to 0, with only Mexico abstaining...
Some boards are inducting students who have taken a year's leave of absence and others are not. Boards apply different criteria in judging whether or not an individual has "dependents;" whether his particular field of graduate study is "in the national interest;" whether a student is making "satisfactory progress...
...Moore, surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, was honored for his book Give and Take, a progress report on developments in tissue transplantation...
Pipkin's experiments and several others that were being conducted at the CEA last July were designed to prepare for high energy physics. But almost all of them have been at a standstill for five months. "We've lost some time," Pipkin said. "Our academic progress since the explosion has been zero...