Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when I thought we were making progress in penology, we are back to this medieval dungeon system of warehousing. At least that is what most penologists in most states will tell you. Rehabilitation has been a failure, so let's keep them in to do their time...
Edward W. Powers, director of employee relations and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, said yesterday that "progress is being made" in the negotiations, and that he hopes for an agreement in the near future...
Profits and other incentives are indispensable to any economic progress. A product or service that is sold for exactly the cost of producing it yields no margin to raise wages, buy new machinery or pursue research leading to new products. Only profits can finance that?whether in a capitalist or a socialist society...
Capitalism's whole spirit is growth through adaptation to ceaseless change?in prices, profits, technology, consumer tastes. In fact, its intellectual history begins with Adam Smith's effort to explain why and how the natural instincts and capabilities of free men cause economies to change and progress. All this is worthy of being recalled today because it remains little understood...
Crichton, venturing outside sci-fi (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man), again proves a skillful researcher and popularizer. Drawing from such scholars as Henry Mayhew, a bygone chronicler of the criminal subculture, he wittily lances the pomposities of 19th century England, when material and moral progress seemed inseparable...