Word: progression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everything from iron ore to palm oil to corn reached dizzying heights. Crude oil nearly quintupled in five years; rice tripled in only five months. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called rising food and oil prices a "man-made catastrophe" that had the potential to quickly erase years of progress in overcoming poverty. Pundits dusted off Malthusian theories that the planet was physically unable to support the burgeoning appetites of an increasingly wealthy global population...
...students who serve on student-faculty committees, and are therefore allowed to attend the meeting, will pose questions to the Faculty about budget cuts, according to the plan.At 5:15 p.m. the group plans to hold a larger rally outside University Hall, where the Faculty meeting will be in progress. During the meeting, several students discussed methods to increase press coverage of the event to put more pressure on administrators. “There are mainstream media outlets that care about this,” said UC representative Eric N. Hysen...
...museum was renovated with an eye toward a more interactive experience, a concept unknown in Soviet-era museums, most of which have no pulse - and sometimes no lights. So there's a full-size mock-up of the Mir space station module and a theater that monitors the progress of the space station in real time via video link. Most of the museum, however, is made up of the usual look-but-don't-touch exhibits. A full-size model of the iconic Sputnik satellite is suspended from the ceiling, while the tiny capsule that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin used...
...Meanwhile, the work necessary for averting a GM bankruptcy remains undone. Although the automaker is reportedly making progress on negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW), open issues remain, and GM even got into a public spat with the UAW over importing cars from China and Mexico. The union is now demanding more assurances as to what cars GM plans to build in the U.S. in the future. (See portraits of autoworkers...
...group plans to hold a larger rally outside University Hall, where the Faculty meeting will be in progress...