Word: proceeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asked why the utility began its operations without any public announcement or formal groundbreaking, Bush said: "The company just decided to proceed. There was really no reason...
...Israelis to hold back a bit. When an edgy Cabinet minister declared that it would be wrong to offer less than Israel was genuinely willing to concede, Kissinger smiled and answered: "Don't push it. Be despicable?like me." He feels that tension-easing banter can often help negotiations proceed smoothly, which may explain in part his lack of success with relatively humorless Japanese diplomats...
...Pentagon, meanwhile, professed not to be taking the fuss too seriously. Much of the outcry, a spokesman declared, was intended for domestic political reasons. Many of the countries that have criticized the project, he added, privately hoped that the U.S. would proceed as planned in order to counter Soviet influence. Whether Congress will buy that argument at appropriations time remains to be seen...
Astronauts will not return to space until the joint U.S.-Russian venture in 1975. But last week unmanned robot craft were ranging far and wide across the solar system on missions of planetary exploration. NASA announced that Pioneer 11, already three-quarters of the way to Jupiter, will proceed to Saturn and provide the first close-up look at the ringed planet. From Mars, an orbiting Soviet spacecraft sent back new, detailed views of the Martian surface. At week's end, fresh from its reconnaissance of cloud-shrouded Venus, Mariner 10, now nearing Mercury, began transmitting its first pictures...
...develop organically, subtly weaving a plot around their self-conscious lives, they would have shown her that indeed the quality of story they lived affects and transforms human life, and that individuality can't be pressed into one single mold. If allowed full rein, her own characters would not proceed unchanged through story after inset story. A talent for vivid characterization to her credit, Prose should shake loose from the confines of this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead of inscribing them...