Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graduate School Council (GSC) passed a resolution last night calling for a regular review of graduate students' progress and earlier notification for students who are required to leave the graduate school...
...Union ritual requires the President to present something new, and that element remains a mystery. But McAllister suggests that Clinton may follow up on the anti-gang violence theme broached in a recent radio address with a new initiative. Otherwise, the President will probably repeat his plea that despite progress on many economic and social issues, more remains to be done. One thing viewers can count on, says McAllister, is that Clinton's speech will be fairly long. Pundits jibed the President for the length of his address last year, but McAllister says focus groups show that people who watched...
Sometimes "progress" should be stopped dead in its tracks. Two years ago, my sleepy hometown of Chappaqua, New York was rudely awakened by the arrival of a Rite-Aid store in its downtown area. This is not such an unusual event; Rite-Aids, Blockbuster Videos, Staples and similar retail outlets are springing up in cities across America. But to a small suburban hamlet whose downtown district could easily fit inside the walls of Harvard Yard, the coming of such a superstore provided weeks of check-out counter chit-chat. We already had three drug stores within a mile...
...phenomenon is not limited to small-town America; we are feeling similar effects of "progress" here in Cambridge. Local "Mom-and-Pop" stores are in precarious situations at best. Last year we watched Elsie's shut its doors. The Grolier Book Store was in grave danger of closing...
...determined to build on the progress that has been made in recent years in encouraging minority students to pursue academic careers," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in the release. "The Mellon Program has played a vital role in these efforts...