Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optimist, and I think in time there will be the perception that the country has recovered from this traumatic period and that we have an excellent opportunity of making progress, whether it is domestically, internationally or otherwise...
...this have in mind, and we shall reject any attempt to modify the text or the meaning of Resolutions 242 and 338. If such a development takes place I shall recommend to the Israeli government to reconsider its commitments undertaken when we accepted 242 and 338. Instead of achieving progress, I'm afraid of a new stagnation...
...episode, which takes John Adams from failure as a rustic lawyer to the center of revolutionary agitation in colonial Boston, is a fair example of how the series works. For Adams' rise to large status in our political history is paralleled by a shrewd depiction of his personal progress from a bachelorhood feverish with suppressed sexuality to a courtship of Abigail (appealingly played by Kathryn Walker) that is near-comic in its ardor...
...Dunlop resigned Tuesday, saying that the possibility for progress in the construction industry with him as secretary of Labor no longer existed...
...business boom, a feature in Fortune magazine on "The New Detroit" proclaimed, "A new consensus is abroad in the city. All the diverse elements that make up Detroit's power structure, once divided and pitted against itself, are being welded together in a remarkable synthesis...most significant is the progress Detroit has made in race relations." Less than two years later, in the summer of 1967, America's most violent race riot racked the city, leaving 43 dead and destroying almost $50 million worth of property...