Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed to drop $385 million from the $4.2 billion recommended by Foreign Relations. But the Senate went even farther, whacked $25 million from the Development Loan Fund, $125 million from the President's foreign aid contingency fund, reapplied $75 million of that to increase the Alliance for Progress authorization to $600 million-for an additional foreign aid loss of $75 million...
...Friday, largely because the top generals met each Friday morning with Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to review progress in the strategic-hamlet program. Then the generals customarily broke for lunch together at the Joint General Staff headquarters, near Saigon airport, which the plotters by then had well under control...
Spin the Platelets. Progress along these lines has already been made in supplying platelets-the tiny elements in the blood which enable it to clot-from healthy donors to leukemia patients threatened with uncontrollable hemorrhage. A healthy donor gives two pints of blood at a sitting, instead of the usual single pint. But while he is still on the table, high-speed centrifuges separate the platelets. Most of the rest of the blood (red cells, white cells and plasma) is returned to his veins at once. He can continue such donations twice a week for months on end. Al ready...
China wants satellite countries in Asia and so would fight India's influence for both ideological and political reasons, Nehru said. Since India's influence lies in her economic progress, China's counter-attack is basically economic, not military, he explained...
...program is the participation of the local population. Without the manpower supplied by the rural residents, the projects would be economically unfeasible. Cunha stressed the psychological value of participation as well. "The small man gains a sense of progress and ambition by lending his effort. Often road and irrigation projects will lead to the construction of a school or liaic...