Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...works selected are eccentric and imaginative. They progress far beyond the bland walls done by the government-sponsored WPA artists in the 1930s. Each represents the artist's concern for integrating art into the subway environment. As the organizers of the project point out, few places could provide more problems for artists than crowded subway stations...
...certain researchers. Carter's new budget proposes investing more money than ever, $33.7 billion (up 12 per cent from last year) in America's scientific research and development. Carter's allocation is especially unusual in an election year. While the pressure for spending cutbacks increases daily, he encourages scientific progress...
...been considered totally unthinkable yesterday are already political facts today. This might very much be the case with today's positions as well. Without elaborating, the U.S. did play a most important and beneficial role in the past. Without such continued involvement in the future there will be no progress...
Brown's pronouncements often create an impression of false progress. Political observer Richard Reeves relates the following exchange...
...moment, events in Iran and Afghanistan have diverted the attention of both the American public and administration from matters closer at hand: the lack of substantive progress in the implementation of the Camp David accords, concluded between Egypt and Israel, with the U.S. as "guarantor" of sorts, and signed into treaty ten months ago in Washington. While Egypt and Israel have limped along towards some kind of "normalization" of relations, little else has concealed the complete failure of any of the signatories to act decisively as regards the core issue in the Middle East--the continuing frustration of the Palestinians...