Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, the $70 million investment in the northeast has bought the government of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn time in which to take further steps toward progress. The belief that the government really means to help them is spreading among the northeasterners. Villagers in provinces where rural development work has not begun are asking local officials when their turn will come. Indeed, when the Interior Minister, General Prapas Charussatira, visited the town of Nongkhai to initiate an aid program, he was welcomed as a bearer of good omens. On the day of his arrival, Mekong fishermen netted...
Nearly every day there are other hospital or medical meetings to take DeBakey's time. And always there are long-distance telephone calls about patients, or plans to further medical progress. Even when DeBakey promises his long-suffering wife that he will be home for dinner, he is usually so late that she eats alone, then gives him a tray at his desk in the den while he is making phone calls. He takes work into the den and stays until midnight...
...assistant ventricles have been produced steadily, in improved shapes and for both ventricles (see diagram, left). It is only seven weeks ago that the DeBakey team ran what it thought was a highly successful experiment with a unit that replaced both of a dog's ventricles. Yet progress in the field is so fast that within four days the researchers were dismissing their test as old hat. They were getting as good or better results with a single ballooning sac inserted in the left ventricle alone. It seems, says Dr. Hall, that this may be enough in many cases...
...obstacle to a coherent world system of law is the lack of a world legislature to codify international law so that courts can determine common principles. Still, there is progress. Relatively few U.S. law schools taught international law even five years ago; today 101 do. More and more U.S. legal scholars are researching precedents in a variety of fields from propaganda to sovereignty, showing clearly what international law holds in fact rather than theory...
...that S.F.U. was promoting "dissent for dissent's sake." Other students thought so too. Proclaiming himself the "Supreme Defender of Tranquillity," Sophomore Warren Lewis organized the Collegiate Anti-Protest Organization Group to protest the protesters. CAPOG pickets turned up at meetings of the protest groups with signs reading PROGRESS THROUGH SANITY and VOUS NOUS DÉGOÛTEZ (You make us sick...