Word: progression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nissan Calls For A Tow" [BUSINESS, March 1], your readers were given a blurred snapshot of our company. Some of the positive steps we've taken were overlooked. Over the past year, we have restructured the way we do business in North America, and we are making substantial progress. We agree with your assessment that Nissan's new Xterra suv is "hot," but it is hardly "alone." By March 2000, Nissan will have redesigned virtually all its vehicles, including the flagship Maxima. We have a solid lineup of cars and trucks, a strong group of dealers and a parent company...
...little about it. If people thought him daft when he was merely designing rockets, who knew what they'd say when the things actually started to fly? When word nonetheless leaked out about the launch and inquiries poured into Clark, Goddard answered each with a pinched, "Work is in progress; there is nothing to report." When he finished each new round of research, he'd file it under a deliberately misleading title--"Formulae for Silvering Mirrors," for example--lest it fall into the wrong hands...
...darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...
Piaget's insight opened a new window into the inner workings of the mind. By the end of a wide-ranging and remarkably prolific research career that spanned nearly 75 years--from his first scientific publication at age 10 to work still in progress when he died at 84--Piaget had developed several new fields of science: developmental psychology, cognitive theory and what came to be called genetic epistemology. Although not an educational reformer, he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the displacement...
...decade after her first book, her agent circulated a second work in progress that proposed to explore the origins and geological aspects of the sea. The material was rejected by 15 magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic. Eventually the work came into the hands of Edith Oliver at the New Yorker, who recommended it to William Shawn, who recognized its exceptional quality at once. Much of it was serialized as "A Profile of the Sea," and in July 1951 the entire manuscript was published as The Sea Around Us. It won the John Burroughs Medal, then...