Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progress in "tinkering with life" [April 18] is shocking, terrifying, exciting. It's like watching a baby take its first steps?but then worrying because the stairs are so near. God give us the wisdom?and the courage?to step carefully and avoid the stairs...
running ashore: usually messy. Tends to ruin the boat as it breaks into lots of pieces on the rocks. Can occur if the coxswain falls asleep and ignores the boat's progress towards land. Makes coaches extremely...
...task of actually surveying these constituents and the 73 per cent figure in favor of decriminalization has produced a predictable effect in the State House. The political savvy of the poll was obvious since it was directed at perhaps the single representative who has most effectively hamstrung the progress of the bill in previous years. The statewide opinion poll that appeared in Monday's Boston Globe confirmed the findings of the NORML survey--no fewer than 1034 respondents endorsed decriminalization, while 143 students and readers kept their thumbs turned down...
...first motion the Faculty will vote on proposes each department set up mechanisms both for advising all concentrators on their individual course plans and for reviewing the academic progress of all students in the major...
ALAN GREENSPAN, chief economic adviser in the Ford Administration; member of TIME'S Board of Economists. At first I was concerned that Carter would foster programs that would reverse much of the progress that President Ford had made in defusing the inflationary bias in our economy. Now, although I can scarcely say that all of my concerns have been stilled, I view the President a good deal more positively. His campaign commitments to achieve a balanced budget by fiscal year 1981 appeared to be little more than rhetoric-and, indeed, they may end up that way. But now they...