Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sierra Club does not oppose "progress and growth," in Alaska or anywhere else. We do oppose the construction of the Alaska pipeline on the grounds that alternative routes were not adequately studied, nor were sufficient studies done relating to possible hazards resulting from the trans-Alaska pipeline's construction...
...last week-his first since Ulster's provincial elections in June. Heath had billed his two-day visit-its ostensible purpose was to attend a memorial service for former Prime Minister of Ulster Lord Brookeborough-as a "stocktaking" trip, to find out why Ulster has not made more progress in figuring out a way to govern itself. In reality, it was probably closer to tail-kicking. The Prime Minister has carefully avoided making any threats that the British might withdraw their military forces from Ulster. Nonetheless, several planned leaks in the press have indicated that that could...
...time Henry Kissinger takes the oath as Secretary of State, only a few months will remain in what he once optimistically proclaimed as the "Year of Europe." So far, there has been al most no progress toward the goal he set for this year: a redefinition and reaffirmation of the principles binding together the Atlantic community. Part of the delay has been caused by Western Europe's own increasing disunity. Despite the unprecedented ease with which Western European nations send goods across each other's borders, the Euro pean Economic Community seethes with some of the deepest discontent...
Brandt's aides retort that the German government has no intention of turning neutral, nor could it economically afford to leave the EEC. The real culprit, they say, is Paris, whose obfuscations and petty legalisms have stalled progress in the EEC for so long that many West Germans have grown irritated and disillusioned...
...urgent now than when he wrote it as an adviser to President Johnson in 1965. Then, a rapidly expanding economy and vigorous Government efforts to curb racial discrimination helped an unprecedented proportion of U.S. blacks to start closing educational, occupational and economic gaps that separated them from whites. This progress recently seems to have been halted or even reversed. A disturbingly large number of blacks are in relatively worse positions than they were three years...