Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conferences--conducted in life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences--was "the re-evaluation of existing values and the search for absolute values." In addition to the 65 scholars sitting on discussion panels, another 400 came to participate. They talked about achieving new values in society, redefining the word "progress," and developing eternal, absolute values...
...better than teftef flowers.") Ever since then, social thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies. The German scholar Norbert Elias, in a magisterial 1936 work called The Civilizing Process, argued that man's "progress" in manners from the intimate and even somewhat disgusting communalism of the Middle Ages to the fastidious individualism of the Renaissance and beyond brought about an unwholesome estrangement of people from one another; they became ashamed, as they were not before, of their smells, their bodies...
Today's excessive regulation is not only painful, it is also un necessary. Straitjacket rules imposed by a bulging bureaucracy lift unemployment, slow technical progress, reduce U.S. competitiveness in the world, hamper exports and thus further weak en the dollar. The imperial regulatory juggernaut has clearly gone too far and, in an inflationary and recession-threatening age, the nation can no longer afford the luxury of costly and in efficient Government control...
...published works consist of more than 20 books and 100 articles, including studies of innovation in the criminal justice system, mathematical theories of learning, determining the authors of certain disputed Federalist Papers, and an assessment of children's educational progress...
...Mississippi, voters finally eliminated from their state constitution a provision prohibiting anyone who engages in a duel from holding public office or voting. Also struck down in the tide of 20th century progress were requirements that the state librarian be a woman and that railroads be routed through a county seat if they run within three miles of the town...