Word: headway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget stalemate, which they fear could lead to an eventual global slowdown. In a joint statement, France and West Germany pledged to coordinate efforts to keep their inflation rates in check. Said William Martin, chief economist for Phillips & Drew, a leading London brokerage: "Bush hasn't made any headway, and there is enormous skepticism about his progress...
...misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn't expected," says Sadler, who is continually searching for fresh teaching methods...
Reagan's election night was festive, Nancy in a long black skirt, some 30 guests from the staff, Cabinet and family. Almost before the group could make respectable headway through the buffet supper, Bush was declared a winner. The White House cranked out the canned victory statement. Reagan made the ritual calls to George Bush and Dan Quayle. His guests drifted into the night and toward the victory celebration in the White House West Wing and delirious parties up and down the capital's broad avenues. Ronald and Nancy Reagan stayed among the White House ghosts and their memories...
Despite the city's hate-filled past, there are signs of real change in Cicero. Even Valukas, who sued Cicero for discriminatory hiring practices in 1983, says he detects a new willingness to confront the issue of racism. Scott too is hopeful. "I am slowly making some headway with the people in the community," he says. People on the street are beginning to call him "Officer Scott." A number of fellow officers have invited him and his wife home to dinner. Even the officer who once called him a "nigger" is now supportive. Scott's superior, Zalas, says both Cicero...
Week by week, Bentsen is growing stronger as a campaigner; he is looser now and more comfortable with a TelePrompTer. He is beginning to campaign like a man who can't lose -- and he can't. Yet the Republicans continue to make ! headway. Bentsen says he was "bloody outraged" by what Bush did with the Pledge of Allegiance and felt that Dukakis should have come out punching. Many operatives think the Democrats still need to take the gloves off in Texas. "These guys," says a county chairman, "have to be a whole lot tougher in rebutting this bull." But Bentsen...