Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 10 the Beijing government allowed the Swiss-licensed Breitling access to its skies, so long as the craft stayed south of the 26th parallel. Nevertheless, morale on the Orbiter 3 started to flag soon after, as Piccard and Jones flew over the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Progress toward Hawaii was slow, and they lost contact with mission control for four days. "I realized that the worst desert wasn't made of sand but of water," Piccard said when communications were re-established. Then the balloon popped out of its jet stream over Mexico and drifted...
...computer, involved a series of contributions. Although there is a danger in personalizing history, there is also an advantage. By choosing the people we feel were most responsible for key breakthroughs, and then exploring their relations and rivalries, we hope to convey the human excitement that makes real the progress of science. We created two gatefolds--a time line of the century's discoveries (page 109) and a chart of how computing and communications converged (page 141)--as a reminder that great thinking is part of a continuous group endeavor...
Extending the number of pre-tenure years would allow women to have more time to establish themselves in their fields, and doing more to make child-care affordable would let women maintain their progress once they already have children, according to Doherty...
...interpret literature, contextualizing it and helping us to grasp its relevance. The study of literature does not give us an increasingly clear picture of what the world is actually like, as the hard sciences do, but instead reflects the world as we see it. There is no measurable progress toward any determined goals in literature because our understanding of the world changes constantly...
...interpret literature, contextualizing it and helping us to grasp its relevance. The study of literature does not give us an increasingly clear picture of what the world is actually like, as the hard sciences do, but instead reflects the world as we see it. There is no measurable progress toward any determined goals in literature because our understanding of the world changes constantly...