Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court if it wants to make an issue out of the Ropes and Gray memo and the ensuing change. And according to various labor lawyers, their chances of success would be very slim, unless they are able to show that there was an actual union organizing drive in progress in 1972, and not just the embryo of a drive, in the form of various committees...
Knee-Jerk Cycle. "A rake's progress of this nature could not continue for long," warned Healey in spelling out the details of an austerity program that placed stiff taxes on items ranging from cigarettes to sewing machines. "If people insist on paying themselves more than they're earning, somehow or other the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whoever he is, has got to take it away again or the whole thing will blow up." Although he stopped short of advocating statutory wage controls, Healey further outraged the unions by offering a budget that will in effect allow unemployment...
...Great Gatsby. Maligned and deservedly. Movies progress, but they don't necessarily get any better, and Gatsby is pretty good proof. When it gets sentimental, it doesn't do it a quarter as well as Wuthering Heights and when it talks about America, it misses the boat altogether. If it had only done as sensitive a translating job as The Day of the Locust has done, it might have been at least a decent, if not well-liked, movie, it closes in on all the wrong things, and gets at nothing that Fitzgerald did. Only one performance really works...
...exclusively on higher prices and taxes to dampen demand for oil and encourage production of more domestic petroleum. Generally, the Democrats favor reducing fuel consumption by conservation measures and some form of Government allocation. But the Democrats are so deeply divided on the best mix of measures that their progress toward drafting any energy legislation has been tortuously slow...
...creation of a national commission on regulatory reform, a sweeping proposal that has so far won little support in Congress and, predictably, even less from the agencies themselves. Undeterred, the Administration is now plugging away at a more modest program of regulatory reforms and making slow but discernible progress...