Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there a representative from Christ Church here," asked Babcock. "Yes," a lady answered, "and I'm not happy." "Do you think," her companion demanded, "that the Ed School is really proud of this building?" Babcock smiled and gestured toward the completely glassed-in IBM complex. "Progress," he said, smiling...
...Santo Domingo, seem to think that "the bear will turn into a golden retriever if only we treat him that way." Bundy argued pointedly: "There is in many-and perhaps especially among those whose concern is for ideas and ideals, and those whose hope is primarily for peace and progress-a reluctance to give full weight to the role of power and its necessity in the world's affairs, a reluctance to recognize and accept this element in the affairs...
...Progress is more evident at Vang Vieng, the vital crossroads town 75 miles north of Vientiane where Kong Le maintains his 8,000-man neutralist army. When Kong Le moved in last year, after being pushed off the Plain of Jars by the Pathet Lao, Vang Vieng was a jumble of wrecked trucks, shattered huts and rusty barbed wire. Now tidy, white-washed barracks climb the hills around Vang Vieng's 4,500-ft. airstrip (recently resurfaced by U.S. aid), and a small sawmill snarls busily, cutting planks for a new school, shops and houses...
...Indeed," said Martin, in a speech to a Columbia University alumni luncheon, "we find disquieting similarities between our present prosperity and the fabulous '20s." Then he listed a dozen similar ities, including virtually uninterrupted progress for seven years, a large in crease in private debt, a continuous growth in the supply of money and bank credit, weakness in the balance of pay ments. "And most importantly," added Martin, "then as now, many Government officials, scholars and businessmen were convinced that a new economic era had opened, an era in which business fluctu ations had become a thing...
Menzel noted that the flight was the "most complicated" space venture yet embarked upon by the United States. He called White's exit from the capsule "a very necessary part of the experimentation" needed for further progress...