Word: headway
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While Colombian and Panamanian authorities have made some headway in the fight against drugs, their counterparts in Bolivia and Peru face problems that seem almost insuperable, as underlined by last week's State Department report. For centuries, Andean natives have chewed coca leaves as freely and frequently as Americans drink coffee. Indeed, most Bolivians, including President Hernan Siles Zuazo, routinely offer visitors coca tea. This is all quite legal because there is no law in Bolivia that prohibits either the cultivation or the marketing of coca. From the law-abiding family that earns $200 for a year's harvest...
...apparent that most Australians and New Zealanders do not take that threat as seriously as Washington does. In the past five years, antinuclear movements have made headway in both countries. In Australia, Hawke has managed to contain the antinuclear demands of left-wing Laborites without compromising Australia's defense commitments, even though he has come under fire for not consulting enough with his party's caucus--especially in recent days over the MX issue. In New Zealand, Lange seems determined to fulfill his campaign pledge of denying access to nuclear ships...
...thought we were making headway." Peterkin said, adding that "negotiations were moving slowly in the spring and summer but recent progress had been rapid...
Erikson made his first headway in the field while at the University of Colorado in the 1970s when he began working with chickens and viruses...
...chieftain refused to accept Peres as the country's leader. Peres concluded that he could break the stalemate and form a new government only by sharing Israel's top post with Shamir. Said Peres after a two-hour meeting with Shamir on Friday: "We made quite a headway, yet our work is not complete...