Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unseen Before. De Gaulle ticked off figures: national revenue up 5%, per capita income up 4% after investments, 325,000 housing units built, 520,000 places provided for new students in schools. It was not all roses, for inflation was rising (see WORLD BUSINESS), and industrial progress was slowing slightly, but there was justification for le grand Charles's rhetorical question: "When did we ever do so much in the past?" He viewed with pride the birth of 900,000 French babies last year and boasted that many of these newborn infants "will one day see a France with...
Shinagel attributed the recent shift of interest from the African teaching programs to South American community development to President Kennedy's promotion of the Alliance for Progress...
Since Cyprus must remain one nation and since any nation needs a government which can Function, the first move towards progress in Cyprus is to remove the Vice-President's veto. This would not be an intolerable demand to make of the Turkish faction. The Turkish community (18 percent of the population) would still retain the constitutionally guaranteed control of the Vice-Presidency, 30 percent of the Council of Ministers, 30 percent of the House of Representatives, 30 percent of the ponce force, and 40 percent of the army. More important, the Turkish Cypriotes would retain their own community government...
Despite protests from College and civic groups the Metropolitan District Commission begins removal of sycamore trees along Memorial Drive preparatory to building a "futuristic underpass" in front of Eliot House. "We live in an age of progress," says one commissioner...
After removing all of the sycamore trees along Memorial Drive, the MDC decides to abandon its plans for an underpass, and promises to plant "as many sturdy saplings as we can afford" to beautify the drive. "We live in an age of progress," says one commissioner...