Word: headway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Service has filed complaints against 39 mail-order companies, charging them with misrepresenting the safety of their products. Delaware was the first of several states to pass special statutes against lookalikes, known as "turkey" laws, so named because "turkey" is the street term for phony drugs. Probably no serious headway will be made, however, until the Federal Government finds a way to block the look-alike loophole with a uniform national...
Despite a dwindling federal money supply, Harvard researchers this year finished up a number of pioneering studies, venturing new ideas in almost every major scientific field. While Harvard has yet to come up with a cure for the common cold, its experimenters and theoreticians made headway in diagnosing cystic fybrosis, alleviating insomnia, and treating sickle-cell anemia...
...Amman, Haig made little headway in his talks with King Hussein. A longtime opponent of the Camp David accords, Hussein refused to confer privately with Haig and insisted on including his advisers in the two-hour meeting; as a member of Hussein's court put it, "The King wanted witnesses." The Jordanian ruler bluntly told Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want...
Since their "final offensive" last January was blunted by the Salvadoran military and by lack of popular support, the guerrillas have made no headway in their struggle to overthrow the civilian-military junta that first took power in October 1979. Indeed, the guerrillas' attempts to wreck the nation's economy by cutting town water supplies and blowing up bridges have cost them the support of many people. The town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000) is without water, and San Miguel (pop. 113,000) has neither electricity nor water...
Calvo-Sotelo, a former Common Market minister who is known to Western leaders, is regarded as a tough economic troubleshooter. His skills will be needed to make headway against the slowdown of Spain's economy, which has raised unemployment to 15%. But some U.C.D. dissidents were openly threatening to withhold their support from Calvo-Sotelo when the parliament votes on his confirmation on Feb 10. Such disunity could lead to a new coalition or force early elections that would bring Felipe Gonzales's Socialist Party into contention. Juan Carlos held consultations with all party leaders through the weekend...