Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Bush, a spokesman for Con Ed, said yesterday that all the construction currently in progress is on land already owned by the utility and is not subject to any unobtained permits...
...prefaced a new freeze in Sino-American relations. Some Washington experts speculated that the Chinese were angry about the recent appointment of Leonard Unger, a senior career diplomat, as U.S. Ambassador to Taiwan. The Chinese may be disappointed that détente has not yet brought about any discernible progress in resolving the Taiwan problem in Peking's favor...
...characterized by a delicate interplay between inequality and equality. Inequality is the less talked about, but in fact the more fervently practiced. It is the great generator, inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates the nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship...
...good as the next fellow" is not always a realistic or even noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...
...humor of the chase comes from Tanner's success in converting it into a stately progress. The 20 or 30 police cars involved generally serve as escort vehicles rather than the weapons of vengeance. The suspense stems from the fact that everyone but the criminals knows that Tanner must in the end uphold the kidnaping law rather than the spirit of common humanity, which has led him into his protective strategy...