Word: progressing
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...marriage of science and socialism, in Wilson's vision, will ensure accelerated technological progress that can make Britain "the pilot plant of the world." A socialist government will radically step up the training of more scientists, ensure that they are creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources...
...control computers can make decisions in one three-billionth of a second. To gasps from the audience, Wilson turned on the trade union leaders who have tried to prevent automation: "We have no room for Luddites in the Labor Party."* The answer, he declared, is not to thwart technological progress but to keep pace with it by providing 10 million new jobs in the next decade. Said he: "These facts put the whole argument about industry and socialism in new perspective...
Time Bomb. Sometimes, however, the correspondents' sense of mission gets them into a different sort of trouble. It raises the question: Have they given their readers an unduly pessimistic view of the progress of the war and the quality of the Diem government...
Meanwhile, the Times has fallen back on its old unpredictable ways. Its new character is best illustrated by a piece written by Ben Reddick himself. "Today is today," he trumpeted. "Progress is wonderful. Toot! Toot...
...definition, pathology is the study of disease, a statement that scarcely distinguishes it from other branches of medicine. Pathologists try to make their efforts a little clearer with a lot more words: "Observation and understanding of the progress of disease by morphological, microscopic, chemical, microbiologic, serologic or any other type of laboratory examination made on the patient or on any material obtained from the patient." The list ranges wide enough to include work for some 5,500 U.S. physicians qualified as specialists in pathology...