Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first day a U.S. spokesman noncommittally described the talks as "businesslike." Next day they were "intensive." By the third day they were "worthwhile." In the artfully nuanced language of diplomacy, that signals progress. Indeed, a tender springtime bloom seemed to have returned to U.S.-Soviet relations as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and U.S.S.R. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko huddled last week in Geneva. Their meeting spanned a diplomatic climate more congenial to detente than the chill that had engulfed Vance's abortive mission to Moscow at the end of March...
Iron Pants. Progress will not be easy. The chill that developed between Washington and Moscow when Jimmy Carter criticized repression of Soviet dissidents deepened in March with Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev's brusque refusal to consider the new Administration's pioneering proposals for a sweeping reduction of nuclear weapons. Brezhnev's "nyet," however, put the Soviet Union on the defensive, and Moscow has since been working hard at trying to show it is not stonewalling on arms limitation. Earlier this month, three top Soviet Americanologists visited the U.S. in hopes of convincing Congressmen and Administration officials that...
Negotiations between the University and the Harvard Patrolmen's Association continued Friday without any clear indications of progress toward settlement of the policemen's five-month-old contract dispute...
Laurence F. Letteri, president of the Patrolmen's Association, said yesterday the most recent round of talks produced "no real progress," adding that Harvard's negotiators have not made any offers the union finds acceptable...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, said yesterday he feels Friday's negotiations yielded progress on several broad issues...