Word: progressing
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Even though my thesis-writing days are behind me, I have been following the progress of the Government Department's attempt to deal with its shortage of thesis advisors, and I was quite dismayed when I found out that the Department has initiated an 11.5 minimum departmental GPA requirement for prospective thesis writers beginning with the Class of 1994 ["Gov Faces Thesis Advisor Shortage," March 19, "Government Adds GPA Requirement to Honors Track," April...
...decided to compromise. We reached an agreement with the dining hall administration to recycle the disposable plates. Superficially, it seems that we have made progress. But now that the recycling program has started, it will be even harder to persuade the dining hall to switch to reusable plates. Recycling should be an intermediate stage. Instead, it seems to be the final...
Such programs have been slow in getting started. In at least one important region, though, there has been encouraging progress. The island of Madagascar is home to a stunning array of animal, plant and fish species, most found nowhere else in the world. Under intense pressure from a burgeoning population, the island is already largely deforested. But conservationists and government officials, making personal visits to more than 100 villages surrounding the Ranomafana primal rain forest, have taught indigenous people about the region's genetic diversity and shown them ways to survive without plundering the forest. Ranomafana is soon...
Marianne Lampkey, a spokesperson for the theater, said that she is pleased with the progress of the talks so far. "We have not felt negative about any of the negotiations we have had," she said. "Hopefully, when we reopen, it will be a bigger and better place...
Shevardnadze's trip was intended to give both sides a chance to make last- minute progress on major arms-control agreements that Bush and Gorbachev hoped to sign the next time they met. As it happened, the sessions also unveiled a new Soviet flexibility on Germany and Israel. But the most newsworthy outcome of Shevardnadze's three days of talks with Bush and Secretary of State James Baker was simply the announcement of a date for the summit -- several weeks earlier than Washington had anticipated. The announcement that the encounter would start on May 30 in Washington dispelled any question...