Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...author Ken Auletta's probe of the television industry, which brought him at least $500,000 and is due on shelves next summer. Connie Bruck, a New Yorker writer, reportedly signed a $400,000 contract for a profile of Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. Other high-priced works in progress include Wall Street exposes by Anthony Bianco of Business Week and James Stewart of the Journal...
...School of the Art Institute of Chicago are getting more attention than they expected. The school has hired a team of consultants who are scheduled to drop in on art classes and "assess student profiles," which the students suspect really means taking note of potentially offensive works in progress. School officials may not want to be burned again by their students' knack for controversy. In 1988 an exhibition featuring a portrayal of the late Mayor Harold Washington in women's underwear prompted enraged aldermen to take the painting off the wall in protest. A year later, veterans' groups went ballistic...
Bush was unmoved by Rostenkowski's appeal, as he was last month when some advisers urged him to forcefully exploit the crisis in the gulf as an opportunity to make progress on the budget. Bush did give a televised speech linking the two problems, but rather than call on all Americans to sacrifice, he proposed nearly $30 billion in new tax breaks and left the tough choices to Congress...
...despair: Science has made some progress towards grand unification. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam managed to unify two of the forces, the electromagnetic and the weak, into one "electroweak" force. Together with Harvard's Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, the two won the 1979 Nobel Prize for their work...
...France, helping to heal what had briefly looked like an ugly split. In his own U.N. speech two weeks ago, President Francois Mitterrand had hinted that Iraq might only have to promise to pull out of Kuwait -- not actually do it -- in order to gain negotiations with Kuwait and progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement. That spurred a prompt bid from Saddam Hussein for separate French-Iraqi negotiations, which Mitterrand righteously spurned. His government, meanwhile, hastened to assure allies that France still supported the U.N. resolutions calling for an unconditional Iraqi pullout...