Word: headway
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...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...
...Grand Prix had been billed as a showdown between East and West, since a number of Americans and other non-Communist athletes were scheduled to appear. In the end, all the best-known Westerners except U.S. Supersprinter Carl Lewis decided to withdraw. Lewis, moody behind dark glasses, made little headway with the international press corps, but he had no trouble winning the 100 meters with a time of 10.05, .06 slower than his Olympic mark. Eight other winners at Budapest, all of them from boycotting countries, posted records better than those of Los Angeles...
...from the bankers. Mexico's major creditors, led by New York's Citibank, announced that they were willing to renegotiate the interest rates and the timetable for payments. The banks remained reluctant, however, to grant similar concessions to other large Latin debtors because they have made less headway with their economic difficulties. Brazil's annual inflation rate is 210%, and Argentina's is an astounding...
...expects tax reform to make much headway in an election year, but the White House may give it a big push in 1985. Says Walker...
...unable to carry through his modest efforts to revive the economy. Though he had made some headway in invigorating the party bureaucracy, he may have left behind a Politburo divided along generational lines. The late Soviet leader had kept his nation's military strong, but his countrymen now felt more threatened than ever. At their bluntest, Muscovites reflected that in death Andropov had at least spared them further months in which they would wait and wonder how long the Soviet Union could be governed by a shadow leader...