Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe in communism very sincerely. As proof, he cites the anecdote about a Soviet child who tries to cross a busy Moscow street in the wrong place. A truck driver grinds his cab to a halt in the middle of the road, and chastises the child for blocking the progress of communism...
...hand CHUL's recommendation and altering the assignment process, Rosovsky's reluctance to accept CHUL's other proposals is understandable. After struggling for a year and considering a variety of alternatives, the panel's recommendations, in essence reaffirming the status quo despite its present flaws, made no progress toward solving the complex housing problem. Despite the complexity of the issue, CHUL's performance provides a sad illustration of its effectiveness as an institution in dealing with matters clearly within its jurisdiction...
...easy to exaggerate Algeria's self sufficiency today because economic progress and prosperity are more visible than their impediments. French townhouses, though getting shabby, still create the aura of opulence, and all around them new roads, hospitals, apartment buildings and factories are going up. What you do not see are the cramped living quarters inside the apartments, the paucity of high level education, the low quality of many factory produced goods and the extent to which young Algerians are discontent...
Kosygin's prescription for his country's economy was increased productivity based on "scientific and technological progress and utmost thrift." Experience teaches, however, that those words will prove empty unless greater incentives are given to the Soviet laborer for working harder and more efficiently...
Despite their progress in developing solar cells, giant reflectors and other devices, scientists still lag far behind nature in their ability to harness solar energy. No man-made device can match the performance of the green pigment chlorophyll: through the process of photosynthesis, it converts some 30% of the sunlight striking it into the chemical energy that plants use to create their own food. Even more frustrating, chlorophyll has defied the efforts of scientists to use it directly to produce energy for man; the pigment is highly unstable...