Word: headway
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Something clearly has to give, and several ideas have already surfaced. One is that Congress could finally start offering financial assistance to the small water companies that need it most. Another is to encourage small systems to merge and share costs, an approach that has made headway in South Dakota. The role of the EPA will be crucial. Administrator Carol Browner says she is willing to reconsider the water law's simplistic "one size fits all" approach; she is looking at a strategy that would allow local governments to deal with local problems in their own way without sacrificing national...
Daniels and Fulwood decried the media's minority hiring practices. Daniels said the newspaper industry has made little headway in hiring more minorities in the last 25 years...
...department still has to work on areas such as recruiting and treatment of athletes on campus, but parity is one area in which it is finally making headway. This doesn't mean the department's job is done; it only means that the task at hand has changed. Now, athletics officials must see to it that their resource allocations and recruiting practices work toward ensuring a level of participation that better reflects the population of the College...
...recent years, the council has intermittently made gains in those directions. Unfortunately, it is now too embroiled in its own internal workings--a college-wide committee to review the council's structure and two internal scandals and counting this year--to make any headway on the campus front...
...reconsider a proposed settlement. "They must do more than simply sign a peace plan," Christopher warned at his Saturday briefing. "It will take actions on the ground to convince the international community of their good faith." Yet he acknowledged privately that "if the negotiations make headway, the chance of military action will all but disappear...