The visit, coordinated with a representation of the OHCH, made it possible to learn, on site, the progress of the ongoing works, assess the procurement processes and estimate the implementation timetable.
Several leftish academics have advocated an updated version of the 1930s Works Progress Administration in which the jobless could be put to socially useful work, such as building low-income housing or providing childcare.
The company's biggest works in progress are simulations of real things, not inventions.
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The emphasis on new forms of assessments can be seen as a function of the need to measure progress toward the new and more explicit goals of education, but it also works the other way.
Some subset of the units are works in progress and that work is ongoing and it is something that we're watching very, very closely.
In the workshop upstairs, you can get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the artists' works-in-progress.
If this works, we can rapidly accelerate the progress of society and the world.
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Among them: freeze entitlement programs and raise the Social Security retirement age to 70, tackle health care in a "serious way" and limit government spending to below 1% of nominal gross domestic product while setting up a modern Works Progress Administration to build infrastructure.
While the U.S. was struggling through the Depression and encouraging the kind of representational art tinged with social themes propagated by the Works Progress Administration, the Park Avenue cubists insisted art should exist apart from politics, in a protected sphere where individuals could assert a private vision.
Isay, of Sound Portraits Productions, says the StoryCorps project was inspired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) recordings made during the 1930s.
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