Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the First Lady's progress, her illness inevitably stirred speculation about her husband's plans for 1976. "He is greatly influenced by his family," says a presidential adviser who believes that Ford would bow out if his wife was not well. The leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination would then be Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, a dismaying prospect for Democrats, who think he would be the toughest man to beat. Rocky is already filling in for the President at speaking engagements in Utah and California. But Ford will soon join him on the hustings. This week...
...Sales. Of course, any strategy for bringing down oil prices will require the consuming nations to impose energy-conserving measures. While there was much talk of this during the Arab embargo, many conservation efforts quickly faded when the oil started flowing again. But recently some further progress has been made. Last month French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing set a ceiling of about $10 billion on what his country would pay for imported oil next year. Because that will amount to a 10% reduction in the volume of petroleum imports (at current prices), France will have to introduce stringent conservation...
Kearns, 31, an associate professor of government at Harvard, is a former protegee of Lyndon Johnson. Unlike some psychohistorians who have roused skepticism with their long-distance analyses, she knew her subject at firsthand, and well. Her Wellfleet report on her book in progress on L.B.J., hailed as brilliant by several in attendance, grew out of the extraordinary role she played in Johnson's last years...
...know that we're getting our brains beaten out, but a number of people have really shown progress," he said. Senior Bill Muller and sophomores Brian Dunn and Tom Phillips have improved over last year's form, but "have not progressed far enough to win meets," McCurdy said...
After a few sessions, Lincoln reported that the kids were making progress. "They are not talking about integration," he said, "they are talking about education-and that's cool...