Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to measure the nation's progress - or lack of it - the Federal Government has always paid more attention to the quantity of economic growth than to the quality of everyday life. In an attempt to gauge that quality, the Office of Management and Bud get is releasing this week the first Social Indicators report. With a wealth of statistics and charts, the 258-page, $7.80 paperback book shows the fairly recent changes - for better or worse - in American housing, employment, life and death rates, public safety, education and leisure-time pursuits...
...Harvard followed the offensive's progress, hoping that it would be the final battle of a war that began before both we and many members of the Vietnamese liberation forces had been born. We did not immediately see a role for ourselves in the struggle. But suddenly, the American bombers whined over Hanoi and Haiphong and dumped death earthward while people bicycled below. We held a successful strike meeting, left our classrooms, and tried to blockade the Kennedy building yet another time. In the police wagon that took me to jail, I met a kid I had not seen since...
There has been considerable progress. We have obtained a great amount of evidence. We have been able to move ahead with our investigations...
Concerned by both the skyrocketing costs of health care and the limitations of private insurance plans, more and more Americans have been insisting that national health insurance is an idea whose tune has come. Despite the rising clamor, there has been little progress toward better health protection. Bills to set up programs ranging from a British-style socialized medical system to more modest plans that would ease the financial burdens of serious illness have languished in Congress for the past four years...
...voices become characters. Scenery is sketched in, and the reader eventually learns that the old lady was a Mrs. Kavanagh, a 76-year-old alcoholic with a string of arrests for public drunkenness. The Housing Council relocted Mrs. Kavanagh in totall Point after her small house was flattened by progress. Like so many of the aged and helpless, she had in effect been buried...