Word: headway
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...concept of compromise, the lifeblood of Western-style democracies, has not made much headway with the Soviet Union's combative political leaders. To them the idea of settling amicably for something less than their maximum demands still smacks of irresoluteness and a lack of ideological purity. Such rigidity is the kind of shortcoming experts point to when they talk about the need for a more developed "political culture" in the U.S.S.R...
...power plants is not voluminous. More than 30 years' worth totals 17,000 tons, a thimbleful compared with the slag that would result from generating equivalent power by burning coal. Yet this waste threatens to fill all available storage space at generating facilities, and the U.S. has made little headway in developing a safe final resting place for more...
Perestroika has made little headway at the KGB, but the Soviet spies are taking a stab at glasnost. Even though KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov still delivers speeches with Stalinist overtones, his year-old public relations department is busy polishing the agency's image. It has opened a museum at headquarters in Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square, allows some officers to give interviews and recently ran a Miss KGB contest in which women in bulletproof vests competed in skills like cooking, shooting, dancing, karate and applying makeup...
...greater enforcement of their laws. The report recommends a crackdown on hunters and more funds for enforcement. But even if the governments commit themselves, it could be centuries before the animal populations recover from what has already been done. "It will take 400 to 500 years before any headway is really made," says Hu Jinchu, an expert on pandas at the Nanchong Normal College in Sichuan. "We've wrested too much from nature...
...today, even with a Yale graduate in the White House, Harvard's professors are making headway--in Cabinet chambers, in the Justice Department and in the Defense Department, among other branches...