Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should not have been surprised. At any rate, at his press conference last week, Carter offered a different -though hardly new-explanation for the slow progress of U.S.-Soviet negotiations. He had put forward new and sweeping proposals (a ban on all nuclear tests, a sharp reduction in nuclear weapons) and, he said, "these new ideas obviously take more time." Carter pointed out that talks with the Russians on SALT, the test ban and limiting arms sales were proceeding "with very good attitudes on the part of the Soviets." He said he would welcome a meeting with Brezhnev, although before...
WHERE MOSCOW WENT WRONG. [The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968] was the last straw. Any idea of internationalism ended for us ... Progress of the socialist movements in the developed capitalist countries would aid Soviet society and Soviet Communists in making progress in their transformation [from the present dictatorship] into an authentic workers' democracy. This is a historic necessity that would greatly benefit the cause of socialism. So it is all the more lamentable that in 1968 our Czechoslovak comrades were not allowed to continue their experiment...
...rigorous distinctions between tu (for animals, children up to 15, family members, close friends, lovers and, in some cases, professional colleagues) and vous (for everyone else). The same rules apply for first names. Many cultures have developed wonder fully elaborate forms of address to delineate relationships, to mark their progress. Russians, for example, can open successive doors of intimacy through a marvelously tender procession of diminutives: Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivan'ich, Ivan, Vanya, Vanyushka, Vanyushenka...
Inevitably, Saudi Arabia's quickened economic pace is creating severe problems. So far, the progress of the development plan has been uneven: shortages of labor, port congestion and housing problems kept the Saudis from spending money as quickly as they would like. But Nazir is making breakthroughs. One example: a crash program to improve the ports has cut waiting time for unloading ships from 90 days last year to almost zero. Says Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil: "The textbooks used to speak of the need for land, labor and capital, but we have to add another factor: time...
...charges. And yet Luscomb's idealism is linked to unshakeable political beliefs. One might find fault with her world political analysis (Russia: "They made great forward steps in the beginning towards the socialist order, but then they slowed down and now they've developed a privileged class and stopped progress." China: "It seems to me that they are still going forward, not having yet developed a managerial class." The world: "We are in the midst of a tremendous change in the fundamental organization of our society and people must keep a historical perspective--miracles can't occur in just...