The idea of progress is central to why we share common ground.
For this reason, among others, Jaki says neither the ancient Greeks nor Romans produced modern science, which depends greatly on the idea of progress.
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"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The Great War and Modern Memory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.
The idea of an orderly progress towards a reasonable end state was paramount.
This is the idea behind smart metering, which has made a good deal of progress in the power industry.
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As beautiful and majestic as the reindeer are, they can be skittish, and the idea of rigging eight together and making forward progress seemed ambitious, even in a children's poem.
Responding to the idea of more compulsory fees, the British Retail Consortium said the industry was already making progress.
The idea strikes terror into a lot of people, and it threatens to undo the fledgling progress Detroit has made on fixing its image, with help from billionaire investors like Dan Gilbert and the Ilitch family, which owns the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings.
The idea is that they could be used to repair the heart after a heart attack or reverse the progress of Alzheimer's disease.
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For some reason, the idea that Hugh Hefner would be padding around the Playboy mansion in LA late at night, keeping track of the progress of his beloved Illini (Class of '49), seemed reassuring.
While the idea of reporting on CSR initiatives and housing all the reports on one online portal has the dual promise of benchmarking progress by providing transparent and comparative data, as well as spurring competitive participation, making the exercise mandatory simply pushes reluctant conglomerates into a numbers game.
The claim that it could replace all taxes is reminiscent of the proponents of Land Value Taxation, the idea that Henry George outlined in Progress and Poverty.
However, CBI director general John Cridland is frustrated by the lack of action on initiatives such has this, as well as the idea of getting pension funds to invest in infrastructure, and wants to see more progress.
This idea comes courtesy of Janney Capital analyst Tony Wible , who has been keeping close tabs on the progress of the infringement suit.
Some U.S. officials, a step removed from the talks but often involved in discussions about them, said they do not rule out the idea of Clinton pushing for a partial agreement, or as one put it, "a framework of progress, " if another day or two passes without resolution.
That way of thinking that led his Israeli engineering team to chuck the idea--sacred at Intel--that progress meant building ever faster processors.
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