Word: progression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...agrees. An economics professor at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, she points to a host of cultural factors that influence women's expectations and actions practically from the day they are born. As the founder of Carnegie Mellon's PROGRESS (Program for Research & Outreach on Gender Equity in Society), Babcock is developing ways to teach negotiation skills to women and girls. One such tool is the Girls Scouts' new negotiation badge, launched last fall, which girls can earn after completing a seminar on negotiation skills...
...Nunn, now 68, left the Senate more than a decade ago and has been largely absent from the Washington scene since. But he returned a couple of weeks ago to brief his former colleagues on the progress the U.S. and Russia have been making on ridding the world of old, obsolete and unneeded nuclear warheads - a project Nunn conceived at the end of the Cold War with Indiana republican Richard Lugar and has in many ways become his life's work. Since then, the Nunn-Lugar program has dismantled and destroyed more nuclear weapons than are in the combined arsenals...
...Still, Nunn's progress report was bleak, and that was only half...
...gave the U.S. and Russia a score of 5 out of 10 on making progress in eliminating nuclear materials. He said that as other nations become nuclear capable, the number drops. Progress on rounding up loose, radiological matter - non-weapons-grade material that is the stuff of dirty bombs - is even worse. He said the score drops to 4 out of 10 when it comes to destroying chemical weapons. (He happily noted that Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus all destroyed their stockpiles...
...Since about one fifth of all electricity in the U.S. comes from nuclear power plants, Nunn added, "One out of 10 of these light bulbs right here in this room, theoretically, comes from missile material that was aimed at us during the Cold War. So we've made some progress...