Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thai was always quite genial and smiled incessantly. In particular, he enjoyed talking about the economic progress which South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people...
Unfulfilled Plan. Rumania's cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...
...precisely this sort of reaction that makes long-term progress so painfully slow. To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras. Stanford's Political Scientist Robert North sees Eastern Europe dressed in motley and "faced with unraveling nationalism. Everyone is trying on new clothes now, some too big, some too small, and some coming out at the elbow." Poland, which permits great personal freedom of expression and in the arts, is currently undergoing a tight fit with religion: Catholic bishops who want to celebrate...
Jigsaw Puzzle. For all its progress, Asia is a long way from such close bonds as those of Europe's Common Market. Poverty compels Asia's economic partners to put resource development, notably of the Mekong, ahead of tariff cutting and trade. In Asia's developing countries, per-capita income averages only $100 a year, agriculture ties up 71% of the labor force, 60% illiteracy among persons over 14 hobbles productivity, and a worsening trade deficit cancels half the bounty of foreign aid. U Nyun expects the area to spawn "a jigsaw puzzle" of groups for differing...
...service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke: leaving an estate of $1,800 and a story in progress on his table...