Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House of Representatives supports HR 1, the nation will make dramatic progress toward helping poor families obtain dignity and opportunity through work training, services and income support. However, if the House of Representatives rejects Title IV of HR 1, or defeats the bill, we will be committed to perpetuation of a system that is an obsolete and demoralizing failure...
Only two major issues remain unresolved: a guarantee for sales of New Zealand's dairy products to the Common Market, and the amount of Britain's initial contribution to the $4 billion EEC budget. No one expects either issue to block British progress. In 1963 and again in 1967, British hopes of joining Europe foundered on Charles de Gaulle's imperious no. This time the French mood is different, as was obvious during last month's summit meeting between President Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister Edward Heath. "They are bantering and joking with us," reports...
...Stage 3, a child is "good" to win approval; by Stage 4, the law is respected and upheld out of a simplistic concern for law and order. Those who progress to Stage 5 believe that the purpose of the law is to preserve human rights and that unjust laws should be changed. In the opinion of those who reach Stage 6, unjust laws may be broken, because morality is grounded not in legality or in specific rules like the Ten Commandments but in abstract principles of justice and respect for the individual. At this level, a 16-year-old told...
...Quiet Life. The critics retort that giant companies, which have billion-dollar investments in existing technology, seek not progress but what the late Judge Learned Hand called "the quiet life" of monopolists-an existence undisturbed by the innovations of pushy competitors. Many of the genuinely new products that have appeared since World War II have been the work of small firms. Transistor radios were first sold in large volume by Sony, then a struggling young Japanese company; stainless-steel razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented...
...reform." The grand design applied to lunatic asylums and poorhouses as well. Order, discipline and cleanliness benevolently imposed in public institutions would rehabilitate the criminal, conquer insanity and resurrect the indigent. Social Philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont noted after an official look at New World progress that Americans had made a profession out of "philanthropy." With a touch of Gallic skepticism, they added the phrase "which to them seems the remedy for all the evils of society...