Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program is long and demanding; the work is often solitary; and the prospects for employment will remain bleak for at least another decade. Yet we can take heart from the progress that has been made..." --President Bok, commenting on some of the problems in graduate education...
...Watergate quagmire, Reston says; by revealing the truth, Nixon can save his weakened presidency. Even after the disclosure of an 18-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes, Reston said that by inviting leaders of Congress to the White House to talk about Watergate, Nixon "made progress toward restoring confidence in his battered administration" (column, November...
...iron rule of color-blindness would seriously endanger much of the progress made since 1968 in the numbers of minority students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...
...usually is one of formidable difficulty, and solving it may take years. On each day of each of these years, the master asks in a sharp and businesslike manner for the answer. The learning monk may at tempt some reply or say nothing. When the master decides that no progress will be made on that day, he rings a small bell, and the interview is over...
...made a lot of progress since then; I was disappointed that we didn't make quite enough," he added...