Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations made a ritual promise to promote trade, but no settlement was reached on the basic issue that is holding up progress: the insistence by Senator Henry Jackson and majorities of the Senate and House that Russia liberalize its emigration policies before Congress grants the Kremlin lower tariffs and easier credits. Asked about the emigration issue, which particularly concerns Jews, a Soviet spokesman said: "I could put the question to you, 'Would you agree to making U.S. trade with the U.S.S.R. dependent upon the solution of the racial problem...
...Most of the social progress in our country has been initiated by our President, and those who would limit his power may well regret it when they have a President with whom they agree. You must think of powers you'd give a President you agree with...
John B. Butler, Harvard director of Personnel and the sole University spokesman on the strike, said yesterday that the two sides are "making progress" in their negotiations but would not comment further...
...religious faith promotes social and intellectual health unless he can demonstrate the converse, that the onslaught of atheism in our own century has been accompanied by decline on nearly all fronts. The arguments are obvious as regards war and social decay, but very obscure in the matter of scientific progress. Too many still confuse the undoubted technological progress of our times with increments of scientific theory...
Such is only one of many barriers to intellectual and social progress in this century of dwingling altruism, receding horizons of imagination, and increasing protection of vested material interests. The pale humanist condescension towards other-directed ethics that prevails so widely among today's agnostics and atheists cannot really substitute for the great sacrificial devotion to their tasks recognizable in the lives of the social reformers and natural philosophers of past centuries. Kepler, for example, was not only the most profoundly original of the great scientists, but also the closest to being a religious mystic, seeking to justify his faith...