Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon, the scene is a slice of America's Norman Rockwell past. Barefoot children play one old cat and race their wagons down gently sloping sidewalks. Under the overhanging oaks, their fathers labor with hand mowers and rakes. On one lawn up the street, a rummage sale is in progress. Station wagons, laden with children, groceries, dogs and camping equipment, and trailing boats, slide out of driveways, heading north for a week or two at the lake...
...make up for past slights, Nixon was effusive in his praise of Japan's performance-"one of the greatest epics of progress in the history of mankind"-and was visibly responsive to the vast change in the Japanese-American relationship. No longer, he said, was the U.S. Japan's "senior partner" or "big brother." The Prime Minister's visit, he said, marks the "equal partnership" between the two countries, "not only in the Pacific but in the world...
...Nixon Administration blocked reappointment of Witteveen's predecessor, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, a Frenchman, because U.S. officials felt that he had taken sides against the U.S. The monetary atmosphere, however, is becoming less testy. Last week an IMF committee representing 20 nations made much progress toward a consensus on outlines of a reformed system. Moneymen are optimistic that a written agreement on the bases of a new system can be approved at the IMF annual meeting next month...
...conditions created under Spanish colonial exploitation and perpetuated by a rawly opportunistic and corrupt ruling class itself under the thumbs of Norteamericano gangsters and businessmen did make life indefensibly miserable for the majority of Cubans. The present regime has made astounding and laudible progress in eliminating hunger, disease, illiteracy and social injustice...
...have been sacrificed, nor should it ignore the extent to which cultural and linguistic entities are forceably submerged or eliminated. The suppression of non-Mandarin and non-Russian speaking peoples by the Soviet Union and China and the suppression of the press in Cuba in the name of Socialist progress cannot be reconciled with humanistic values that transcend ideological arguments. The Crimson should address itself to this also...