Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...trust a Communist. Period." Parker, 18 years a city councilman and newly elected mayor of Lorain, does not agree. Parker tells his third visitor on Citizens Day that he "did not win" the election in Lorain but that the "other guy lost it." In Lorain, where "Pride Grows With Progress" at 572 feet above sea level, the Democratic mayor ran into a little trouble toward the end of his term. Some of his appointees, it seems, took a Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Block Grant program and turned it into a "geared to the greedy...
...portrait of his scandal-marred youth. The monk lived more than two decades after his early epic, and he died quite a different man from the one he first described. Furlong provides what Thomas Merton himself only partly disclosed in later works: a chart of the pilgrim's progress toward maturity. His dark night of the soul was a long, arid season. Fame was no solace...
...Spectator said the report discounts the likelihood of attaining "a much more integrated arrangement with Barnard than exists at present," because "such integration has been under discussion for several years with no perceptible progress towards the goal...
...Launched three years ago, it weighs 20 tons, has as much room as a small dacha (the amenities: a shower, 20 view ports, sleeping facilities for four), and has been occupied for 578 days, a little more than half its time aloft. The Soviets, using their new breed of Progress spacecraft-small, automated single-shot ferry ships-have repeatedly refueled and re-equipped Salyut, with a total overhaul of its inventory of more than two tons of scientific equipment...
...space, they sometimes have to wait for hours while their hosts dispatch messengers to various hotels to snap up rooms as they become vacant. In the coffee shop of the Peking Hotel, the only such Western-style watering hole in town, businessmen often gather to chew over deals in progress and grouse about prices, which for foreigners tend to run two to three times the levels charged the Chinese for everything from restaurant meals to plane tickets...