Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reaction of College readers to the material, the HRBSA solicited signatures from students. Five hundred undergraduates signed a statement that they found the examples of racial humor in the Lampoon offensive. Attempts were then made to resolve the matter between HRBSA and the Lampoon directly; and substantial progress toward an understanding was made in those discussions. This effort entered into voluntarily on both sides, would probably have succeeded if the statement tentatively accepted by both parties had not been prematurely released to the Crimson by the Lampoon and published together with a comment by a Lampoon member that the organization...
...outside observer it was clear that Dean Arthurs did obstruct the progress of several proposals by digressing to discuss trivial matters. We can only hope that this was unintentional...
...index of "composite economic performance" compiled by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, combining such measures as gross national income, output, sales and employment, shows that the summit seven as a group have largely regained their pre-recession heights of economic activity (see chart following page). But the progress is erratic. Except for the U.S., only Italy has surpassed its preslump industrial output-and Italy has other grave problems...
...smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool, as in 'keeping one's cool' and 'playing it cool,' have much to do with this." But progress, at least Birmingham's notion of it, is at hand; he has noticed that more upwardly mobile blacks are now "es-chewing Cadillacs in favor of compacts and station wagons...
...whole controversy comes down to one question: Who wants to restrict the progress of brilliant men, working in their own fields without destructive or pecuniary motives...