Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Analyst Ben Wattenberg (The Real America), among the hardiest of the species, argues that Americans are "a tough-minded, wise, shrewd people. They've coped with assassination, an awful Viet Nam War, city riots, political scandal and all the while made an enormous amount of material and attitudinal progress, i.e., in the women's field and civil rights. Remember that this is still the most emulated country in the world. There are very few nations who are saying they would really like to model themselves after the Soviet Union...
...truly objectionable language in the affirmative action rules and got the sentences we wanted in the party charter," said Hatcher in an interview on the convention floor. "Black people can live with this; they can progress with this...
...many areas, the U.S. holds the key to peace and progress in Cambodia. In the absence of American dollars and other forms of continued intervention it seems probable that the Lon Nol regime would fall almost immediately. While the Khmer Rouge provides no guarantee of building a model democratic socialist state in Cambodia, they constitute a definite progressive alternative to the current regime. Cutting all American aid is the necessary first step out of the current stalemate...
...take much account of specific students, and they criticized me," he said. "Some in class, some after class, some with posters. And a sharp ideological struggle took place in my mind, should I correct this or not? And now with the help of the students I have made some progress..." And anyway the athlete didn't typify the young people we met. Most of them seemed closer to Mao's basic quotation on youth, cited in the course of our stay by about a dozen different speakers, each of them evidently pleased with himself for having thought of it. "Young...
Glimmer of Hope. Other pressing matters include a settlement of divided Cyprus, which Caramanlis declared "the immediate and crucial problem" facing his government. Last week there were some glimmerings of hope that progress could finally be made. After two months without an effective government, Turkey at last had one; on the very day that Greek voters gave Caramanlis his mandate, Turkish President Fahri Korutü named Sadï Irmak, 70, an appointed Senator who does not belong to any party, as Premier of a caretaker regime. Beyond that, the results of the Greek elections were well received in Ankara, which...