Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affirmative action, Bok shifts deftly from the specific to the general, citing a Carnegie study that found little improvement for women or minority faculty across the nation. He might as well have stuck to Harvard, where the statistics are almost as gloomy. In a few areas there has been progress, but black admissions are down in some schools, most of Harvard's small number of female teachers perch tenuously on the lower rungs of the ladder, and blacks still comprise less than two per cent of the tenured faculty. Not impressive, assuredly, and one possible reaction would be to condemn...
...bill's progress has caused a surge of optimism in the ailing East Coast fishing industry, especially in New England ports. Fishermen there have long blamed foreign competition, particularly from Russian trawlers, for drastically declining catches and soaring fresh-fish prices. In 1957 more than 1 billion lbs. of fish were caught off New England; by 1974 the catch had been chopped about in half, to 521 million lbs. As late as October 1971, yellowtail flounder (commonly served in East Coast restaurants as sole) brought 6? per lb. at New Bedford's daily fish auctions; last week...
...about what's serious, not sit through the awkward moments of introduction. A monologue is more interesting than interrupted dialogue." Talese, one of the best organized touring authors, seems to have it all figured out. He has even gone on the air to talk about his work in progress, a massive study of American sex habits. Flogging a book before it is written may have its advantages, but it also has its dangers. The writer could get so intoxicated with publicity that he might forget he has to write...
Those who agree with the tiresome cliché that there is so much to accomplish on earth, hence why bother to go into space, were not moved by the occasion. Others took it as a metaphor for all kinds of human progress, which has received an undeservedly bad name. As Goddard wrote to H.G. Wells in 1932, " 'Aiming at the stars,' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning...
...markets had not quite digested the French move when they got a second bombshell: Wilson's unexpected resignation. In the ensuing tumult, the pound traded as low as $1.9115. Whether the pound recovers in the weeks ahead depends largely on the progress of Wilson's successor in cutting the nation's 16% inflation rate...