Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road from the one in which predecessor Henry Kissinger used to stay." As Vance's meetings with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev began, however, the atmosphere was expected to be considerably chillier. In fact, there was only limited hope in Washington that the trip would produce any real progress in curbing the nuclear arms race and coping with a score of other problematical issues...
While we were wallowing in our self-decided superior role in the sports world, the women were slowly making determined progress. From the legislative end, the women got help from Title IX. (That referred to an educational amendment which requires an end to sex discrimination in federally funded public programs. Its major thrust was intended to equalize the male-female sports programs at public learning institutions, but its aims have not nearly been achieved...
Perhaps we East- and West-coast cosmopolitans with our classy habits and our big-deal men's pro teams are too sophisticated to put up with women's athletics when they are not on a par with men's competition. But that attitude will not stop the "wheels of progress" in sports...
...director Norman Ayrton's credit that throughout most of the two and a half hours of War and Peace, the historian's illusion of control is sustained. By coloring the play's war scenes with two large slide screens that at times trace Napoleon's progress across the map of Europe and at times stain the background with a dull blood red, Ayrton gives the soldiers' disordered flights a suggestive significance beyond the mere chronicling of events. And by frequently isolating the characters at opposite ends of the stages, Ayrton lends to the few joint tableaux an emotional compression that...
...consumer is increasing foreign aid to coffee-producing countries by $6 billion-without congressional approval." Perhaps-but says Fausto Cantù Peña, director of the Mexican Coffee Institute: "The increase in coffee prices may do more for the peasants of Latin America than the entire Alliance for Progress...