Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June, apparently on a wild impulse, David J. Hanley, 30, dashed out of a cocktail lounge near St. Louis' Lambert Airport. He got into his 1972 Cadillac convertible and crashed it into an American Airlines 727 jet airliner in a foolhardy attempt to stop a skyjacking then in progress. The skyjacker and his hostage crew merely switched to another plane and took off with $502,500 in ransom (he parachuted safely, but was later arrested). Even so, Hanley was seen by some as a courageous citizen acting boldly to stop a crime...
Other examinations into the wheat deal are still in progress, however. Vice President Spiro Agnew last week announced that the FBI was investigating whether any large U.S. exporters had made illegal profits in the deal. That surprising concession led newsmen to check the FBI, where they were told no such probe had been directed. One day later, the FBI did get such an order from the Justice Department, creating a debate over whether this was done only because Agnew had mistakenly said it was under way or whether Agnew had merely misunderstood the timing. The Commodity Exchange Administration...
More recently, he has directed his own Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago in dissecting each of the 102 basic ideas. So far it has published volumes on Freedom, Love, Justice, Happiness and Progress, and now Adler and two researchers are exploring Equality...
...Math Ar is sufficient to fulfill half of the premed math requirement. As a course, it has status with any other: it is offered for credit; and it is perhaps more conscientiously taught than other math courses. Students are sometimes worried that taking Math Ar will delay their progress. However, they should realize that nothing will impede their chances of doing well in the sciences as much as not knowing the maternal in Math...
...weeks ago HALT dramatized their opposition to the trucks by staging a rally on Prospect St. During the rally, a number of local residents crowded the streets and briefly blocked a number of trucks' progress...