Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to see them through the mess that's still going on, and the Jews throughout millenniums. It's a kind of capacity to endure. But now that we have reached the limits of one kind of technological expansion, there is a tendency on the part of progress-oriented thinkers to flip totally out and see lines going up or lines going down. It is more likely that the disintegration of one cultural structure is going to occur at the same time that the creation of another is going on, and that these things will be binary...
Still, many critics question whether the earnings of America's corporations should benefit as directly as they now do from Government tax policy, especially since money is so sorely needed to pay for progress in the public sector at a faster rate than private companies seem willing to finance it. No matter who wins the election in November, businessmen can probably expect their corporate treasuries to be hit in the next round of tax reform...
Although Boudin says he "slid by accident into the law," his progress was almost inevitable. His father was a real-estate lawyer in Brooklyn; young Boudin spent his Saturdays clipping law journals in his father's office. Following law school at St. John's, he joined his uncle's firm, which specialized in trade-union cases. He had just set up his own practice when the cold war started, and Boudin undertook to defend union clients against charges of Communist influence. Did he have ideological reasons? "Not at all," he says. "I not only was never...
...might that be? GM officers will not answer, but according to persistent rumors around Detroit, the company will offer rotary engines as an option on '75 Vegas and perhaps a year later on a compact. Most engineers agree that rotary engines will first become available on subcompacts and progress to larger-sized cars...
...vital elements of a substantially effective performance are present, but one last surefire connection is lacking--the play doesn't trigger the emotions. As a result, no progress or momentum is realized from the beginning of the evening to the end. Only one's media-programmed sense of humor is affected, reacting in knee-jerking kind, and the rest remains strangely but decidedly untouched. The performance of Chinese Wisecrackers leaves one with the aftertaste of cotton candy: an elaborated string of one-liners are no more satisfying than an anticipated huge mass of lip-smacking pink confection--both melt away...