Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Rep. Kevin M. Burke, a practicing attorney and member of the House Judiciary Committee, said yesterday clerks have a significant influence over the progress of cases...
That has been a problem thus far for the Harvard freshmen, which have had two games (Tufts and Boston College junior varsities) canceled, by the opposition. Although pleased with his progress despite the lack of competition, Connors would have preferred a crack at making the varsity. "They let the hockey players play as freshmen, and I think we should have been able to as well," he asserts...
...most of his scathing satire to an anonymous audience, are far less confined by the formidable constraints of the genre than Roosevelt, the quintessential social animal. Because Roosevelt always directs his thoughts and words toward another person or group, the absence of other characters seriously impairs the play's progress...
Alcoholism is the Indians' biggest single hurdle to progress. "Everyone on this reservation has an alcoholic in the family...it's everybody's problem. Until you sit down and try to help your parents or whoever, then nothing's going to come of it. It's just going to get worse...
...both the south-western United States as well as Northern Brazil are inhabited principally by native people. Native people have lived harmoniously with the earth in the Americas for over 60,000 years, and now the economic interests of the industrial world demand to rape the earth for energy progress and promise little to the Indians in return...