Word: progresses
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According to Reich, the original American consciousness thrived in innocent self-interest, dependent on a rather shallow faith in achievement through individual virtue. In the 20rh century the powerful but poorly understood forces of technology-the impersonal impulses toward efficiency and progress through scientific management-harnessed this consciousness. They spawned and nurtured the intimate association of government and big business which Reich calls the corporate state. They became the ultimate determinants of social value and the general welfare, of truth and happiness. They became God; the corporate state became the hand...
...corporate state, freed in the very act of seeing the individual's potential for guiding his own thoughts and tastes. The promise of life is not false. Nor is technology a monster to be slayed. The dehumanized, single-minded movement of the corporate state toward efficiency and growth and progress is what must be got rid of and technology put in its place, that is, subordinated...
Enormous Cost. To some degree, the increase in malpractice suits is a byproduct of medical progress. "The success of modern medicine has led many people to expect the perfect result all the time," says A.M.A. General Counsel Bernard Hirsh. "When they don't get the perfect result, they consider it negligence." Others blame the increase on a health care system that takes the patient out of the hands of a family doctor and places him in those of a specialized stranger. They point out that while people rarely sue physicians they know and trust, they often sue specialists...
...able to flourish in all of Mexico's widely varied growing conditions. His work quickly put Mexico on the road to self-sufficiency in wheat production. But it had an even more important result: it sowed the seeds of the Green Revolution-a quantum jump in agricultural progress...
...classrooms. According to a recent Gallup poll, most U.S. adults think that their community's schools are not strict enough-and that curriculums need no substantial change. Nonetheless, Silberman's vivid examples of educational failings and his catalogue of existing alternatives will help produce pockets of progress and serve as a powerful agenda for those who still believe that the rest of the nation's schools can and must improve...