Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grace period. They have already gone about as far toward cleaning up their cars as they can, without introducing costly new technology. GM, for example, reports that it has reduced emissions of hydrocarbons by 80%, carbon monoxide by 70% and nitrogen oxides by 40% since 1967. Such progress, gained by making adjustments on the standard Detroit engines, has been bought at the expense of fuel economy and auto performance: most new cars are hard to start, balk when rapidly accelerated and cough for minutes after the ignition has been turned...
This conviction is based not only on the arguments now in progress about his guilt or innocence on specific charges but also on a sense of the nation. There is a deep current running against him, both in the affair called Watergate and in the conditions of American life...
...that any Danish government could get by with eight instead of the present 20 ministries. What post would he like? Minister for the Abolition of Bureaucracy, of course. Simplistic and nonsensical as his platform sounds, almost 500,000 of Denmark's 3 million voters chose it, making the Progress Party, with 28 of the Folketing's 179 seats, the country's second largest...
...attempt to judge the quality of care, myriad questions arise, most of them unanswerable in any concrete terms. How good is this doctor? How good was his school? How good was his hospital training? Has he kept up with medical progress? The last is the easiest to answer. Often he has not, because there is no prod beyond his own conscience for him to do so. The American Academy of Family Physicians requires its 35,000 members to take 150 hours of refresher courses in every three years and annually expels about 350 for failure to do so. But this...
...would turn-of-the-century newsmen have any trouble recognizing many contemporary composing rooms with their mastodonic Linotype machines (first used in 1886) that engorge hot metal and spit out lines of type at a lumbering pace. Of all commercial activities, few have seemed more immune to technological progress than the production of daily papers. But the pace of change is now accelerating. In a small but growing number of offices, reporters are writing stories, and editors are correcting them, without touching pencil, typewriter or paper...