Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pornographic movies, those shadowy 16-mm. offerings with titles like Lust Cave and Schoolgirls for Sale, have moved out of downtown into your friendly neighborhood theater. One neighborhood that did not take kindly to the progress of prurience was Chicago's Northwest Side. Indeed, the Rockne Theater aroused such ire when it began showing steamies that local matrons picketed in protest last summer...
Last Straw. But there was more to the coup than that. In his drive for progress, Busia had left a trail of resentment and unrest. He sacked 600 civil servants (mostly for political reasons), threatened to fire judges who were uncooperative, imposed a special "development" tax of 1% to 5% on incomes of more than $ 1,000 a year, and banned the import of 150 items ranging from cigarettes to new automobiles. Last month, in what proved to be the last straw, Busia devalued Ghana's currency by a whopping...
Fantastic? No, only grim inevitability if society continues its present dedication to growth and "progress." At least that is the vision conjured by an elaborate study entitled The Limits to Growth. Its sponsors are no latter-day Jeremiahs, but the 70 eminently respectable members of the prestigious Club of Rome. These include Aurelio Peccei, the Italian economist (and former Olivetti chief) who now heads the management firm of Italconsult in Rome; Kogoro Uemura, president of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations; and Britain's Alexander King, director general for scientific affairs of the Office for Economic Cooperation and Development...
...unclear. Even though a majority of Americans nominally endorse capital punishment, that endorsement is probably not so strong as to lead to lynchings in the streets if the death penalty were abolished. All change causes difficulties and dislocation, but this is not necessarily a reason to deter otherwise desirable progress. If it is conceded that man is not totally limited by his animal origins, that he can grow gentler and more humane, then it follows that death will some day join torture as a prohibited form of punishment...
...Rico has lifted itself from a sleepy agricultural backwater to a modern state brisk with industry, commerce and tourism. Much of the reason for this transformation lies in the historic economic program "Operation Bootstrap," which provided large tax incentives to lure development capital to the island. For all the progress, however, living conditions for many Puerto Ricans remain poor...