Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he walked out of the State Department six months ago, he felt he had left a working foreign policy. SALT was ready for another nudge forward; the Middle East, though dangerous, was malleable; relations with the industrialized nations were getting better; a new dialogue had started with the underdeveloped world. He believes these basic conditions have not yet been fundamentally altered...
Although he was a veteran of Mao's Long March who remained personally close to the Chairman until the early 1960s, Teng disagreed with Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, which marked a disastrous setback for China, particularly in agriculture. In the Leap's aftermath, Teng, who was then general secretary of the Party, introduced a gradualist agricultural reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method...
...producers followed the same cost-cutting measure when they shot the Three and Four Musketeers-though they neglected to tell the actors that time. This time the principals know. Reeve and Margot Kidder, who gives Lois Lane the sex appeal that schoolboys always knew she had, are already looking forward to Superman II, III and IV. Reeve was afraid of being typecast, but Sean Connery, who played James Bond six times, put his fears to rest. Said Connery: "You had better be good in the first Superman or you won't have to worry about the second and third...
...Forward to Neidenburg they...
...rapid are the technological advances in personal record-keeping that the Government has been unable to keep pace with controls. Congress enacted the Privacy Act of 1974 to restrict abuses by federal officials, but has done almost nothing about misdeeds in private business. The Linowes report puts forward 162 recommendations for reform. The package may be overdetailed and could lead to a costly bureaucratic nightmare. But, at minimum, Congress should enact legislation that would...