Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Carter running strong on "moral leadership" and Reagan chipping away at Ford on the defense issue, the President becomes increasingly dependent on an improved economy as his greatest strength. But while the economy is gaining, voters perceive the rate of progress as slowing. The share of people who say they feel economic stress -worry about paying off bills or losing jobs-dropped from a high of 36% last June to 30% in October; since then, the index has shown no real improvement. Last week it stood...
...time this "chronicle of the next Italy" is written, in the year 2000 and in the Italy of the "Second Republic." The devaluation of the lira has been solved; it is possible to move in Rome--where in today's reality a second subway line has been in lentitudinous progress for over a decade. The sarcasm peels off in layers. The phrases of the book, the pompous, eulogistic style, ridicule bureaucratic rhetoric, while the content, in its flagrant incredibility, attacks the chaos of the existing system and simultaneously mocks the faith that a communist future would be better ordered...
Italy's major concern today is involving the Communist Party in democratic progress, not defending democracy against the Communist Party, Antonio Giolitti, former Italian finance minister who is a Socialist, said last night...
This has a certain J.S Millian ring to it. The theory that knowledge equals freedom, and that free discussion inevitably leads to social progress, is applied in this film only on an individual basis--it's each woman for herself. This is a valid approach for most of the issues the movie deals with. Women who object to the assembly-line impersonality of hospital births should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus...
...hour he returns but an after-dinner meeting is in progress and he must sweat it out for a while longer. When the guests start dribbling out Rick approaches Gilbert again. "Oh, you wanna take some more pictures, Rick?" Gilbert announces to the room with a wide smile. She asks a friend to wait for her, "Rick is only gonna take a second...