Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Progress was slow but a legitimate breakthrough occurred at the Greater Boston meet. "That had to bolster her confidence when she hit it for fives and five-and-one-halves there, but even I didn't expect what she did with it at the Ivy meet," Walker says...
Fitzpatrick said the King administration did not support the use of the controversial Construction Works in Progress (CWIP) changes to finance construction of the Pilgrim II power plant in Plymouth. "We're not dead against CWIP," he said, adding, "If it helps our people and reduced costs then we'll consider...
...always used the Springfield meet as a barometer--to measure the team's progress," Hunt said yesterday. "I told the girls we'd beat them some day. And we did. We have arrived...
...start-up costs under a contract. The money, which in the case of Iran totals $500 million, is held in escrow until work is completed and all the equipment has been delivered and paid for. At the same time, the contracts themselves also normally require buyers to make regular progress payments as work continues...
...when Einstein's fellow refugees Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner learned that German scientists had managed to split the atom, they sought Einstein's help. Einstein himself may have had only the faintest idea of the recent progress in nuclear physics, but after a briefing by Szilard and Wigner he agreed to write a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him to the possibility that the Nazis might try to make an atomic bomb. That letter is popularly credited (though its precise effect is unclear) with helping to persuade Roosevelt to order up the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic...