Word: progress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheerful observer wearing rose-colored glasses might have seen last week some hopeful signs of progress toward disarmament, especially if he focused on Geneva. Scheduled to begin behind locked doors in Geneva this week was an East-West conference on technical aspects of reducing the threat of surprise attack. At another Geneva conference, U.S., British and Russian delegates were already in their second week of talks on nuclear-test suspension, though progress was stalled by the clash between Soviet insistence on stopping tests right away and "forever" and U.S.-British insistence that a foul-proof inspection system must precede...
...have-nots." He includes the southern Asians in the latter group. Rising though it does from their desperate poverty, their demand for social and economic reform is keener because of the example of China's startling industrial expansion. Nehru sees this as a challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion, but in other countries it seems to be felt as a challenge to which democracy has no answer...
...with both hands, Nixon spoke earnestly, looking to heavily Democratic Alaska's future through Republican eyes. "There is a great age ahead," he said. "Alaska has had 90 years of paternalism and bureaucracy, some of it good and much of it necessary in a frontier area. But the progress of Alaska in the future will be only as great as bureaucracy and dependence upon the Federal Government in Washington decrease and the opportunity for individual enterprise increases...
...year, provided that the Russians 1) set off no nuclear explosions that could be detected by the free world's monitoring system, and 2) continued to negotiate toward a workable inspection system. It would be extended if the three nations, after setting up an inspection system, could make progress on a program of general disarmament...
Manufacturers are well aware that they will always have to cater to geographical and financial variations in consumer taste, that obsolescence is a necessary part of progress. But the recession made many businessmen see that they had carried it too far. Too many models are worse than too few, have cost both manufacturer and consumer some of the benefits of mass production, e.g., lower prices, ease of production. What is needed is a happy medium in which the consumer can have plenty of choice-and his saving...