Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks in Vienna, and the Administration regards keeping American sol diers in Europe as a bargaining chip that will force Soviet concessions. Says Schlesinger: "It would be foolhardy indeed not to give this pro cess a chance to work itself out." So far, however, there has been no visible progress at the talks. The chief diffi culty seems to be finding a way to compensate for the fact that the U.S. would have to withdraw troops across the Atlantic, the Russians only to then-borders near...
...first, the new ads were mostly treatises on the origins of the shortage or exhortations to conserve energy. Amoco, which last April dropped a $1 million product campaign aimed at luring vacationers into the company's gas stations, now runs print and TV "progress reports" on subjects such as "America's great natural-resources appetite." With cameras, Atlantic Richfield followed two overweight men around while they attempted to live without their cars. Each of them lost 35 pounds in three months of walking and watching their diets. Arco commercials now advise weight watchers: "Leave your...
...doubt. But W.F.L. President Gary Davidson was wasting no time showing that his new venture was making progress. He announced a television contract to broadcast one game a week starting in July. He also disclosed innovations designed to lure fans with peppier play: an optional two-point conversion, a fifth period to settle ties, kickoffs from the 30-yard line. But the crucial question for now is the identity of the players...
...REAL ENEMIES of Chilean economic and social progress were Chile's upper class and the United States. From the first month after Allende's election, right--wing extremist groups tried assassination and terror to spark a middle class Red scare and a military revolt. Management struck factories which workers forced to stay open; workers established committees for self-defense and to distribute goods directly to the people...
...class, and the prospects for socialism. It relates Chile's experience to the experience of U.S. workers and is particularly sensitive to problems of racism, sexism, and the exploitation of children. What shines through the horror, the anger and frustration is the Chilean people's determination to resurrect the progress and joy that for a moment was theirs...