Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...George McGovern played the same numbers game McCarthy had, with equal success. The first to declare for the Democratic nomination--more than a year before New Hampshire--McGovern quietly built a youthful but highly efficient organization even as poll after poll showed negligible progress. Facing an ostensibly weak field, front-runner Muskie was1
However, the students' lawsuit against the college for damages and to expunge records of the incident is still in progress. The students' attorney said they dropped their appeal only because the semester was well underway and they felt it was too late to be reinstated...
...only has the staying power of the spree confounded and amazed economists, but it has also put off the widely predicted recession. Some economic reversal is probably necessary if the nation is to make even minimal progress in slowing inflation. Yet so long as consumer spending, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of the U.S.'s gross national product, stays strong, the economy is unlikely to ease down, and inflation is all but certain to remain oppressive...
When it begins operating in late 1983, the plant will become the flagship of a program that by the mid-1980s will make France the second largest producer of nuclear power, behind only the U.S. and ahead of West Germany, Japan and the U.S.S.R. France's progress runs counter to the trend in other Western nations, where opponents of atom power and rising costs have impeded its development just as the need for alternatives to oil has become most acute. Only the Soviet Union is developing nuclear energy as assiduously as France...
...progress which benefits a few upper-class individuals and American multi-nationals at the expense of the majority of the nation's population, is not progress at all. Development, by its very nature, involves social as well as economic change. Economic changes presumably result in improvements in the economy of a country, but Harberger's policies neither seem to improve the economic well-being of a country nor accept responsibility for the social costs his programs demand. Can Harberger justify the number of victims of his development schemes by the far smaller number of beneficiaries. Rosalyn Lezberg Grant Barnes Kent...