Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel P. Moynihan's "benign neglect" memorandum [May 5] did not recommend indifference to black needs. Why indeed would the author of the Family Assistance Plan, whose main beneficiaries would have been the black poor, have recommended such a policy? Writing in January 1970, Moynihan described the "extraordinary progress" blacks had made in the decade just ended and the various threats to that progress, including the pre-emption of the racial issue by "paranoids ... on all sides." He urged the President to pay "close attention to such progress" while seeking-and here is where benign neglect came...
...height of campus anti-war activity, Smithies recalls, "People used to go around screaming 'CIA Agent!' and things at me." Saigon most summers--Smithies wrote several reports, comparable to other American economists' and political scientists' attempts to improve the Saigon government's chances and provide scientific descriptions of its progress...
...toward Hollywood. In the distance a glow of huge piles of burning motion picture scripts lit up the sky. The crisp tang of frying writers and directors whetted my appetite. How good it was to be alive, I thought, inhaling deep lungfuls of carbon monoxide... A suttee was in progress by the road side... Violet and I elbowed our way through the crowd. An enormous funeral pyre composed of thousands of feet of film and scripts drenched with Chanel Number 5 awaited the torch of Jack Holt who was to act as master of ceremonies..." I wish that when John...
...more and more workers and bosses, Mitbestimmung is the better way. Some illustrations of its progress...
...classes progress, the women discuss their problems and act out some hypothetical conflicts, like dealing with an overpassionate boy friend or an excessively demanding boss. They practice refusing a request by using some techniques already familiar to other women who, though unschooled in the art, are naturally talented in assertiveness. When the asker is especially persistent, for example, the women may use the "broken record" technique: a simple, repeated no. Another favorite of assertiveness teachers is "fogging"-saying no while generously agreeing with one's adversary. ("I'm sure that as you say, I need these encyclopedias...