Word: progression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consider ourselves a work in progress," Sullivan said. "We're going to have patience with our young kids...
...from Montaigne to Voltaire, Diderot, Kant, Lessing and Lichtenberg to introduce a flicker of reason into the dark corners of scholasticism?...But when the light finally did brighten things up, it turned out to be the light of cold reason, limited to the technically doable, to economic and social progress, a reason that claimed to be enlightened but that merely drummed a reason-based jargon (which amounted to instructions for progress at all costs...
...fact that black and Hispanic students madethe greatest gains in this year's early actioncycle would seem to signal progress in theCollege's attempt to have the early action poolmore closely match the demographic make-up of theentering class...
...work in progress going into the season and now that is even more the case...
...President ruled no. Aides complained that some proposals went too far, such as one for a program to end racial differences in childhood educational achievement that reached far beyond current budget plans. There wasn't even agreement on whether to emphasize the remaining problems or focus on the progress. "The President," says Edley, "will have to decide whether the glass is half empty or half full." That's if he ever gets back...