Word: progress
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...four categories are women, as well as four of 15 members of the board of directors. At MCI, where 42% of the 20,400 employees are female, women hold 12% of the 350 top-management jobs, double the number three years ago. Both companies attribute their progress in part to the efforts they have made to help working mothers balance job and family responsibilities...
That is what AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) is about, a group that is often misunderstood. It is not a "gay rights group," but an AIDS activist group that recognizes that progress on AIDS has been severely retarded by homophobia, racism, sexism and classism...
...losses are going to be horrendous in terms of lives, damage to the infrastructure, oil. Also, there will be other damage: the fact that there are foreign troops, even in the country that is the custodian of the holy places. There is also great agitation over the lack of progress on the Palestinian problem and the fact that the status of Jerusalem is still unresolved. If war occurs, the damage will be felt throughout the Muslim and Arab world. What is the purpose? The destruction of Iraq? What kind of a result is that? The region would be driven toward...
Results of the experiments far exceeded expectations. Brown, for example, designed his study only to determine if the progress of heart disease could be halted. "The biggest surprise," he says, "was that the arteries actually got better. I thought that they probably wouldn't get worse, but I was a disbeliever about possible regression of the disease." Now Brown and an increasing number of cardiologists have been converted. And for many cardiac patients, that could drastically change the way atherosclerosis is treated...
Professional educators blanch at the movement's expansion, and as the trend increases, their concerns rise about the quality of such instruction. Bruce Wheeler, an industrial-arts teacher in Wilton, N.H., frets about his nephew Solon Sadoway's progress. "This is a hit-or-miss effort," he says. "If he doesn't learn something, nobody notices." "If you need a license to cut hair," argues Donald Bemis, state supervisor of public instruction in Michigan, "you should have one to mold a kid's mind...