Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others, like Rosa Rios '87, a member of the Chicano student group RAZA, offer a more positive assessment of the Foundation and say the Foundation's progress in improving race relations in a relatively short time is often overlooked. "We should feel lucky that we have an organization like the Foundation here, because it is only recently that minorities have had exposure at Harvard," Rios says...
...question is now how students should participate [at the Foundation] and not whether they should. And that seems to me a sign of progress," says Gomes. But for those minority students and organizations highly critical of the Foundation, but dependent on it for funding, the change Gomes describes is a constant source of frustration...
...development of a related cancer. When liver cancer strikes a hepatitis carrier, for example, it generally does so 30 to 50 years after the victim was first infected. These long delays, Zur Hausen observes, "suggest the need for other events besides infection to occur in order to progress to cancer...
...corporate pullouts that most shocked South Africans were those of GM and IBM, respectively the first and fifth largest U.S. industrial corporations. Both firms cited as reasons a combination of South Africa's failure to achieve progress in ending apartheid and a precarious economic climate. Said IBM Chairman John Akers, whose company has operated in South Africa since 1952: "Unfortunately, the deteriorating political and economic situation in South Africa and its trading partners makes our action necessary...
LARNACA, Cyprus--Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite flew here last night by U.S. military helicopter after a surprise visit to Beirut, where he reported progress in efforts to free the American hostages...