Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President suggested that he might not pursue détente forever if the Russians fail to reciprocate. If progress is not made in the SALT II talks, he said, he would have no choice but to raise defense spending, now at the "bare minimum," by $2 billion to $3 billion over the next two years. "This is one place where second best is worth nothing...
...several other earthquakes. In China, where the understanding of earthquakes has become an important national goal, ten quakes are said to have been accurately predicted in the past few years. Before two large recent quakes, the government confidently issued public warnings and evacuated vulnerable areas. Buoyed by their rapid progress in forecasting, scientists are already talking about an even more exciting possibility: actually taming the more destructive convulsions of the earth. "We can't start next year," says Geologist Healy, "but it's not a Buck Rogers idea. Every step we've taken encourages...
When India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to dispense with the irksome processes of democracy and arrogate all power to herself in June, she was able to take a few cues from her next-door neighbor. Last January Sheik Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh, impatient with the plodding progress and growing anarchy of his impoverished country, pushed legislation through Parliament changing the government to a presidential system giving him enlarged powers. The move surprised some and saddened others, since "Mujib" had long impressed observers as a man of reason and moderation as well as great courage...
...Keller's discovering the physical fact of water and the word for water at the same moment. Such reflections reach back to the edges of silence, to a cabalistic cherishing of words-the beginning of speech being the event that marked the first step in the hominids' progress toward Shakespeare. But most of the debate about language now occurs at the opposite end of history, in today's atmosphere of verbal saturation...
...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...