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Word: progressiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of the reason for the dominion of purpose over progress is Harvard's excellence at guiding students along traditionally successful routes. We have fellowships tutors in each house. We have umpteen advisers to lay out a course into the most prestigious medical, law and graduate schools. The on-campus recruiting process provides a good foundation toward a high-paying career in business...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Asking A New Question | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

Rhodes envisions the cross-training team as "a good support group" to help members reach their individual fitness goals, and he plans to keep records so that members can monitor their own progress...

Author: By Jennifer E. Moon, | Title: First-Year Planning Physical Fitness club | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

Since last fall a slew of violent crimes occuring near and on campus have begun to belie the bucolic appearance of Harvard's grounds and its Cambridge environs. While the Harvard police and administration have certainly made some progress in recent years toward improving campus security, we feel that there is still more they can do to ensure an optimal level of safety...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Security Still Needs Improvement | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

...Pasquarello and Watson, who has only been commissioner for two weeks, were driving to a meeting at the firehouse when they got a call from the dispatcher about a fight in progress just a few blocks away from them...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: City's New Top Cop Helps Catch Theft Suspect | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

Clinton agonized over that third bill, but his eventual assent was made palatable because Republicans had softened their harshest demands. And that happened because Clinton's moves to the middle had retarded Dole's progress, thus causing G.O.P. members of Congress to think first about their own careers, which meant standing for re-election with a law that reformed (or at least changed) welfare, the one program among thousands that had come to symbolize everything wrong with paternalistic Big Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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