Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin the long march toward industrialization. Vietnam's socialist principles, forged into a profound sincerity by the white heat of several decades of total war, are not likely to be left by the wayside. No society in the world has ever managed this combination of meaningful socialism with industrial progress. The people of America, although they cannot participate in this process, must respect its daring and hope for its success. It will be a model for other nations in the Third World, a model for an industrializing process without barbarity...
Neither side was willing to give in on these links. In Cairo, reported TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Egyptians were openly impatient at the slow pace of negotiations. Among other consequences, the lack of progress is holding up a massive postwar restructuring of the Egyptian economy, which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has been planning at Aswan. To carry out this economic retooling and take over the Premier's job that he has also held since last March, Sadat is expected to choose Deputy Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazi, 51, a respected former business professor who already supervises the nation...
...between there and Jerusalem, where Premier Golda Meir's decisions were affected by, among other things, a case of shingles. Kissinger was hopeful about an accommodation on disengagement. "I wouldn't have come," he said, "if I didn't think there would be very good progress...
...have to stand naked," from It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). In Dirge, a song from his soon-to-be-released album Planet Waves, his forceful lyrics are an eloquent, melancholy study of an individual searching for a niche in an anonymous society dominated by "progress...
PERHAPS THE MOST ODIOUS effect of pack journalism, though, is the "winner's bus" attitude. Like bees to honey, journalists flock to a winner; it is both glamorous and exciting to herald the victor's progress. Crouse suggests that this feeling unconsciously prompts reporters to fashion their subject into a winner, to write stories that too exuberantly predict his success. Sometimes they are left in the lurch, like the disillusioned reporters who roseately optimized Muskie's rortune but suddenly discovered that the bus had run aground without warning...