Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attract new employers, Hernandez has lately started stressing productivity. In his annual message to the legislature last month, he demanded that wage raises be limited to the amount of productivity increases and hinted that legislated fringe benefits would be reduced. "The progress of some," he declared, "cannot be at the cost of others' misery." Sounding like California's Jerry Brown, Hernandez declared that sac rifice rather than new miracles is on tomorrow's agenda. He said that his own government "overspends, is highly inefficient, unresponsive to the calls and needs of the people...
...growth of independent economic ties between western Europe and the region which holds the World's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources is regarded with apprehension in Washington. Finally, here more than South Asia, West Africa or Latin America, the national liberation movements are seen as making progress and winning victories--from Angola and Eritea to Oman and Palestine...
...Reconstruction": Any description of human life in the past must be a reconstruction. Any attempt to describe the nature of selection pressures in populations that could not be observed directly must be based on inference. Yet archeology and paleontology have made progress nevertheless. Overall, Wilson's account is more cautious than that contained in the full body of literature which he has abstracted...
...Jewish lobby's influence in the elections, Ford and Kissinger are unlikely to put strong pressure on Israel. Indeed, Washington's plans for the Middle East in 1976 have been variously described by State Department officials as "a holding action," "lots of movement but little progress," and "backfield in motion but modest forward yardage...
...festival of peace in an Olympic village surrounded by barbed-wire fences-a grim reminder of the massacre of eleven Israelis at the summer games in Munich four years ago; a lovely, old city of narrow streets and gilded buildings, crammed with cars, microwave towers and the trappings of progress. There will be much talk about the glory of amateur athletics, although the concept is now scarcely more alive than Innsbruck's medieval statuary...