Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report also finds the Economic Department's progress in affirmative action "falling far short of other institutions," and recommends a "much greater and far more systematic effort" in hiring women and minorities...
...this alone cannot account for all the lack of progress. In Claverly, for example, expenditures have already been approved but changes have yet to be implemented. Epps says, "the work has been so slow in coming that I have asked Mr. Hall for a trouble shooter. We need to decide firmly that matters of personal safety must be given top priority, and apparently they...
...food crisis today is described by some futurologists in apocalyptic terms. Some kind of black death or brown is imminent. Famine, starvation, rebellion occur; the synthesis of progress based on energy, trade, and capital is broken by new (old) resource imperialisms, expropriations and capital shortages with rising costs of debt. We despair of the conditions for living...
...water to one region will they be depriving another-perhaps in a neighboring country? The skilled plant breeders who created the Green Revolution can breed tougher grains to meet changes of climate. But these will take time to perfect, and their use will be limited unless science makes greater progress in long-range weather forecasting. Otherwise, farmers will not know which of the new seeds to plant. Unfortunately, even the best long-range weather predictions are notoriously inaccurate. Fluctuations in climate depend on so many variables-winds, temperature, rates of evaporation, etc.-that meteorologists have yet to formulate accurate mathematical...
...that "the totality of salvation is not to be confused with one or another aspect of liberation. The Good News must preserve all of its own originality: that of a God who saves us from sin and death and brings us to divine life. Hence human advancement [and] social progress [are] not to be excessively emphasized on the temporal level to the detriment of the announcement of the Good News...