Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steps Toward Progress. Though the northeast gets less rain than Thailand's lush central plain-the nation's rice bowl, much coveted by Red China-it is bordered by the Mekong and riven by countless streams. The scope for new dams, canals, wells and reservoirs is enormous, and government teams have already built scores of minor waterworks. Still, only 4,000 of the 14,000 villages have enough drinking and irrigation water at hand. Many have to cart water in by ox team from miles away. And the Communists do not hesitate to make political capital from technical...
...would not have had time to learn anything else." That was the voice of a past America, which admired the man of letters but adored the man of action. It was an America that believed in the self-taught pragmatist, the graduate of life, the tinkerer who achieved progress through hunch and persistence. The intellectual was, at worst, distrusted as arrogant and impractical; at best, he was respected as a cultural adornment and considered all right-in his place...
...whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled repeatedly between the two camps without making any progress. "When the killing started," he said, "ideas disappeared...
Despite their convenience as contraceptives, "the pills" have their draw backs, one of which is that a woman must be careful to take 20 or 21 tablets a month on a precise schedule. Now researchers have told the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians that they are making progress in the search for an equally effective contraceptive to be given by injection no more often than once a month...
With these provocative opening words, the Council of Economic Advisers last week sent to the President a terse, 15-page report that hymned the progress of the economy as it proceeds through the 51st month of an expansion that began in February...