Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert O. Hirschman, author of The Strategy of Economic Development and Journeys Toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-making in Latin America, has been named a professor of Political Economy and will begin teaching here in September...
Pusey said that "no progress" has been made during the past several weeks in negotiations for land on which to build the House, and he added that he was doubtful that any progress would be made before this summer...
...this situation, said Scranton, "progress today can be achieved only through the Republican Party." The "foot soldiers of the Republican Party," he cried, "are tired of losing. They are tired of being in the minority. They are tired of seeing their leaders outmaneuvered, outvoted and outpoliticked by the opposition. They are tired of being always on the defensive. They are tired of being cast in a negative role. And I don't blame them! It's time the Republican Party became once again the majority in America...
...happiest combination of political freedom and national progress on the continent so far has occurred in Nigeria. There, three clearly defined and potentially antagonistic tribal regions have been melded into a smoothly working two-party federal government under stolid Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Since 1950, Nigeria's gross national product has grown steadily. It now has five universities where it had none in 1947, and its primary-school enrollment has more than tripled (from 820,000 to 2,600,000) in the same time. But Sir Abubakar has his problems. Nigeria's last official census...
Attracted by this progress, foreign companies are steadily setting up branches in Hong Kong. Seattle's Bank of Commerce last week became the fifth U.S. bank to open an office in the colony; British and overseas Chinese are funneling in funds for investing in real estate and local businesses. Even Red China is profiting by Hong Kong's prosperity: since it sells more than 20 times as much to the colony as it buys, it earns much of its foreign exchange through the capitalist outpost at its doorstep...