Word: progressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gallucio said he would use any legal recourse he could to maintain the benefits, but acknowledged that progress would have to come on the state level, by amending or replacing the 1955 law that limits benefits to spouses...
...working conditions. The Harvard Corporation has thus far refused to join the WRC, citing an alleged lack of corporate participation and leadership. The organization was founded only a year ago, and some consider this a drawback as well. In fact, on both counts the WRC has made considerable progress: It was incorporated earlier this month, which should dispel viability concerns, and it changed the structure of its governing board to include equal representation among students, administrators and sweatshop experts. In addition, the WRC is in constant contact with the corporations it monitors. It would represent a clear conflict of interest...
...dramatic progress made on defense has, as the clich indicates, made Harvard a serious championship contender...
...While it can often be tricky to talk about progress or development in an artist's oeuvre, this exhibit does give a good indication of how Marc's style transformed over a span of three years. The fiercely independent animals of "Grazing Horses IV" merge into what seems to be almost a collective consciousness composed of three round figures in "Large Blue Horses." The landscape emerges from the background, becoming a living presence that closely surrounds the horses. Color is reduced to mere essentials, to primary hues that had symbolic value for Marc. Blue came to signify masculinity, yellow femininity...
...other developed countries lies with an inability to take the concept of global warming seriously, in combination with an intense desire to protect recent economic successes. As we move farther away in time from the moment when holes in the ozone layer first were noticed, life continues to progress as usual and we wonder what the big fuss was about; without palpable catastrophe, the theory begins to seem far-fetched and totally passe. The once spell-bounding specter of spreading deserts, of global famine, of expensive real estate on the Florida panhandle disappearing beneath the Atlantic as unforgiving waters reclaim...