Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frei, professor of medicine, says that plans for the new center are proceeding "smashingly," and he gives equally glowing accounts of the progress cancer treatment is making and of the bold new field of "medical oncology." Frei is a lanky man with wisps of reddish hair and a sweeping white coat that somehow properly identifies him as a modern crusader, the image one senses he enjoys...
...making remarkable progress toward an agreement-and toward a nervous breakdown. It's going to be a race to see which will be achieved first." Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was only half-joking as he described the status of Middle East peace negotiations last week. But as his latest shuttle between Alexandria and Jerusalem approached its conclusion, there was an air of conviction that the long-sought interim peace agreement between Egypt and Israel will be initialed this week...
...Chinese, too, were making rapid progress in their earthquake-forecast studies. When a delegation of U.S. scientists headed by M.I.T. Geologist Frank Press toured Chinese earthquake-research centers in October 1974, they were astonished to learn that the country had some 10,000 trained earthquake specialists (more than ten times the American total). They were operating 17 major observation centers, which in turn receive data from 250 seismic stations and 5,000 observation points (some of which are simply wells where the radon content of water is measured). In addition, thousands of dedicated amateurs, mainly high school students, regularly collect...
...networks are far from complete, progress in general has been slow, and seismologists blame inadequate Government funding. The USGS's annual quake budget has remained at about $11 million for the past few years, only about $3 million of it for research in the art of forecasting...
...averted. He must also assume that people will come to see their own struggles differently and in retrospect discover that their efforts were more successful and worthwhile than they realized. The case for today as the best of times for most people also rests on the ongoing progress of those minority millions who are gradually finding opportunities, and an acceptance denied their parents in offices, restaurants, universities...