Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schell does not leave the reader with a completely one-sided vision of progress in China. Certainly he is aware of the immense changes in the social structure there, and approves of them; but he also recognizes a tendency to bureaucratic regimentation, which he suggests was only halted by Chairman Mao's influence. Mao, he suggests, was able to avoid seeing his revolution turn into a regime simply because his personality was powerful enough to prevent it from happening; which rather leaves us wondering about events since he died, and whether they were, as Schell implies, inevitable...
...least one O Level, but only 33% manage to pass one. Those who perform well may undertake the even tougher A Level advanced exams two years later. A Levels are comparable in difficulty to sophomore work at an American university. Only 12% to 16% of students progress that far; only 10% are finally admitted to university...
...union's progress has been slow. It scored some early successes among Cape Cod hospitals, and as of last week it had successfully negotiated two contracts for workers in the Harvard Community Health Plan, a progressive health care system founded eight years ago by forward-thinking doctors at the Harvard Medical School. But the union encountered no opposition from the plan's management when it decided to organize there. The plan's president at the time of Local 880's initial unionizing drive was a former official in the United Auto Workers. It is in the union's efforts...
Cowens sees fine-tuning as a vital link in a team's progress towards consistent victory. He says that players don't change their individual style of play from game to game. It's more of a coordinated shift from an entire unit...
...ancestors. All told, during a decade-long Leakey has found more and better pre-man and early man fossils than any other anthropologist. His work has helped upset many held ideas on evolution and has forced science to write a new sce nario for man's slow progress from ape to Shakespeare's "paragon of animals," Homo sapiens...