Word: progressions
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According to a report on the structure of the College co-authored by Lewis in 1994, the first responsibility of senior tutors is "advice, assistance and monitoring of the academic programs and progress towards degrees of the students in the Houses." Lewis goes on to say that senior tutors are "in fact deans for the students in their Houses...
...revealed how strong and how varied those views turn out to be. Clinton has privately called the Congress that dared pursue him "Stalinist"; James Dobson, meanwhile, has said the American people can no longer recognize the nature of evil. But 1998 was a year of public corruption and private progress, of numbers that shouted of moral uplift as crime, abortion, teen pregnancy and drunk driving all dropped. There was no epidemic of perjury; in fact the evening news became an occasion to demonstrate in constant, clear terms that we take lying extremely seriously...
Chinese planners say they need annual growth of 8% to make progress on their problems, and they acknowledge that growth fell below that level last year. Though there is pressure on China to devalue its currency--a cheaper renminbi would help revitalize exports--Jiang insisted that "the currency will stay stable. At the moment I can still feel confident about this...
Only last May, the subcontinent's bitterest adversaries seemed poised on the brink of catastrophe as both detonated atomic devices and became the latest and most aggressive members of the nuclear club. "Even a month ago, no one could have foreseen such spectacular progress," says McAllister. For months, however, the United States has been quietly pressing the two countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says...
...shall not rest, but we have good reason to be encouraged by our progress," Knowles concluded...