Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harrington said the nation's problems with foreign policy relate to the American mentality. If Third World nations stop insulting the United States and multinationals and work harder. Americans seem to think these countries will progress as the United States has, he said...
...refer to this production focus as narrow precisely because it ignores the social reality of hunger--the problem of releasing the vast untapped human potential of local people developing local resources and skills. Reducing the problem of agriculture to one simply of production increasingly divorces agricultural progress from basic rural development. Such a mirage of rural development undercuts the interests of those within the rural community in order to serve those outside--landowning elites, moneylenders, industrialists, bureaucrats, and foreign investors...
...losing our "productive might" and the "technological advancement" which has characterized the economic growth of the past fifty years. Our inability to face this issue is reminiscent of the decline of other empires in history, he said. The solution is fiscal responsibility, which will induce investment and further technological progress. It will also make possible a continuation of social programs. The Governor revered the memory of Kennedy (John, that is) by stating his belief that an expanding pie has slices for all. Simple, conservative--and wrong, from several points of view...
Brown is right on one count--technological progress, leading to increased productivity of labor, is the main source of growth in per capita income (as well as sectoral unemployment). But the only governmental remedy to America's declining rate of technological change would be to spend more, not less; to subsidize the turnover of older, less world-competitive industries that can still operate profitably in the protected domestic market, like steel, or to encourage research and innovation. NASA is a prime example of an effective technology-producing government agency that is highly susceptible to budget-slashing...
...what of Dickens? It is fine to be "after Dickens," but in this case the distance is embarrassing. Great Expectations would seem to offer rich and practical material for an opera. Pip's progress through the world is eventful, and he does not meet a single dull soul on his road to self-knowledge. Yet the novel is not so diffuse that it could not be contained in a manageable number of scenes...