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...trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making in the South...
Murphy said that because the large basement area of the building was partitioned by wooden planks, the fire spread easily and was difficult to control, "giving it extensive headway...
China's bustling workplaces give further evidence that Deng Xiaoping's reforms are still on track -- and making headway. Western visitors to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, where free enterprise thrives in factories and shops, have found no retreat from the reforms. To emphasize that the political furor in Peking has left them largely unaffected, local officials cite a Chinese maxim: "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away." Even in the capital the pace of change seems unabated. The Bank of China last week agreed to link its Great Wall credit card with New York-based MasterCard...
...Government pressure and supervision of toxic-waste sites are vital, the disposal problem will remain intractable unless industry does most of the job itself. By one estimate, 96% of all hazardous wastes never leave the property of the companies that produced them. A number of companies have made some headway in curbing a generation of the poisons. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., for example, cut its volume of toxic wastes in half, partly by switching from solvent-based glues to water-based glues in its manufacture of adhesive tape. It also burns nearly all of the remaining wastes in a huge...
...hierarchy's delegate to the November meeting in Rome. His 14-page statement reflected not only Collegeville comments but proposals from two dozen Catholic scholars. The report, strongly endorsing the effects of Vatican II in the U.S., said that the American church is making headway in advocating social justice, but admitted that there is considerable "confusion over moral issues," including the limits of personal dissent and the role of conscience. The most significant passage dealt with the status of women. Malone, declaring that "particular attention must now be given" to laywomen and sisters, asserted, "Their role in the church...