Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Oilmen are fast discovering that pollution cannot be dismissed as the price of progress. In the toughest federal action ever brought against a polluter, a grand jury in New Orleans last week indicted the Chevron Oil Co. on a 900-count criminal charge of having "knowingly and wilfully" failed to provide safety devices on 90 wells in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coastline...
...already has a series of similar workbooks in progress. "What we are trying to do is develop a program that gets students to recognize that the man-made environment is more than just dirty air and water pollution," explains Architect Richard Wurman. "In effect, we see the program as an invitation to a marvelous, continuous visual party." If GEE! succeeds, the day may come when kids will know why man-made America is ugly. Better still, they may know how to clean up the visual mess...
...Defense Department procurement bill for fiscal 1971, which included a $544.4 million allotment for Lockheed. The prospect of passage in the Senate's more hostile environment is far less certain when the bill comes up for debate early next month. Of Lockheed's allotment, $344.4 million represents progress payments on production of the giant C-5A military transport. The remaining $200 million is called "contingency funding" by the Pentagon and "bailout money" by Lockheed's critics. Says Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire: "I don't think it is in the public or national interest to finance Lockheed...
...when? The principal difference between proponents of progress is over whether to put the cart of medical-care delivery before the horse of manpower resources, and let the resources catch up with the overburdened cart-or to take the time to breed more medical horses. That means waiting years for the country's health education system to produce many thousands more doctors and tens of thousands more paramedical personnel. Secretary Finch sincerely believes that the modest expansions of federal health programs that he has submitted to Congress are important steps in the right direction, but will not commit himself...
They resolved that no progress could be made in industrializing production of housing "until all war is ended" or "in the atmosphere of racism and repression which presently pervades the public and private sectors...