Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China? Don't ask. Although significant progress has been made this year, the country's Y2K working group reports nagging trouble with a lack of funds and an even more severe lack of understanding. Thousands of state-owned firms are still fumbling for solutions. The State Department also warns Beijing-bound travelers to be wary of possible blackouts and food shortages...
After the students are considered, Bial said she will track their progress throughout their college careers...
...rehabilitation. This approach aims to remedy what many see as a great failing of America's treatment of the mentally ill--once they are stabilized with drugs and released from the hospital, they are too often left to fend for themselves, with no one to counsel them, monitor their progress or help them find work. That has led to much private suffering but also to some public tragedy, as in the case of Andrew Goldstein, a New York City man suffering from schizophrenia who pushed a woman to her death off a subway platform. Goldstein's murder trial ended...
...proudly roll up his T-shirt sleeve to show his right arm, covered from shoulder to elbow with his initials surrounded by a design that resembles Victorian wallpaper. An intricately tattooed Yoda from Star Wars sagely sits on his left calf. Aaron describes his body as "a work in progress...
...subjects need treatment, and that lately the scientists have been running short of willing participants. At a conference on clinical trials held recently in Alexandria, Va., researchers trying to devise strategies for signing up more patients noted that one of the reasons there has been so much progress in treating pediatric cancers over the past 20 years is that 60% of all children with cancer are enrolled in some kind of trial. With adults, enrollment falls off dramatically, to only 2% to 3% of eligible patients...