Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certification to Congress, Reagan saidthat "continued intransigence by Nicaragua hasprevented progress...
...well would feel more comfortable if they knew that they could, if mistreated by Harvard police, appeal to a body outside the University. The current internal review process under which students may appeal alleged police misconduct is inadequate since the University has a vested interest in squelching the progress of complaints against its own police...
Although the SPA is a separate body from the council, members have been keeping the council informed about their progress. However, Undergraduate Council Chairman Richard S. Eisert '88 said he has been kept in the dark and is upset at how slowly things have been moving...
Kuehn and 37 other young adults owe their progress to a dynamic 62-year-old school secretary turned educator. Recalls Doris Walker: "I was a little old lady in tennis shoes to my classmates when I went back to college to get a degree in special education." With her new teaching certificate in hand, she took over a public school special-education class in Buena Park, Calif. Twelve years later, in 1980, she founded Hope University-Unico National College for the Gifted Mentally Retarded. Despite the grand title, the institution is located in two cramped rooms behind a shopping center...
Researchers, however, have been making some progress. Darold Treffert, a psychiatrist in Fond du Lac, Wis., who is a nationally recognized expert on savants, points out that sophisticated tools like computerized scans have improved methods for investigating the functions of the brain. Reading and language ability seem to be controlled by the left side of the brain; art, music and mathematics by the right. Says Treffert: "The skills of the savants are generally right-brain skills, and we know that in many cases of savants there is left-brain damage." He explains, "We think now that the right brain tends...