Word: progression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bernanke has shown that he has evolved from being an academic to being a man of action, but he has not made any progress as an economist. He takes a position of optimism balanced by caution in almost all of his public statements, which makes them nearly useless...
...recovery cannot make much progress or be sustained while the number of people without jobs is at historic highs. Mr. Bernanke fails to acknowledge this. He used inventory and housing numbers to make his case that the economy is beginning to improve. That is hardly enough to prove the point...
Veratect's tracking method includes analyzing Internet data (blogs and other sources), maintaining on-the-ground contact with health officials, text-mining news reports and government resources for keywords related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials...
...federal technology transformation remains very much a work in progress, with several agencies just beginning to grapple with allowing employees to even access social-networking sites. The White House communications team, for instance, is not able to access the government's Facebook postings and Twitter feeds, let alone those of reporters from the press corps, because of filters installed at the White House. (The White House New Media team, which posts on the networks from four old speech-writing rooms in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, has been able to win an exemption from this policy...
...government. But lawmakers seemed unimpressed by Holbrooke's appeals. Committee chairman Democrat Howard Berman of California said the House is "simply asking the Pakistanis to keep the commitments they have already made to fight the terrorists who threaten our national security and theirs, and that they make some progress doing so, with progress defined very broadly." If that is unreasonable, Berman asked, "then what does that tell us about our relationship with Pakistan...