Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater power and flexibility in negotiating with foreign nations, seems stalled, partly because the Administration's loss of prestige has strengthened the hand of protectionists. Nixon's pledge to formulate a new welfare-reform proposal is getting little push, and there is a notable lack of progress in shaping a new national health-insurance package. A less than adequate effort has been made to round up support for the Administration's special revenue-sharing program, which had been languishing even before the Watergate scandal broke open. Under special revenue sharing, money that has been doled out from...
Kissinger landed at Orly Airport in a jovial mood, noting the "progress and cooperative spirit" that marked his talks with Tho before they recessed May 23. At a reception at Paris' George V Hotel, a perpetually smiling Tho assured guests that he was "optimistic." From Saigon came cheering reports that Vietnamese and Western officials saw the time as ripe for movement toward a real peace. Official photographers and television cameramen were admitted to the first session, which opened Wednesday morning at the Communist villa in Gifsur-Yvette, a Paris suburb. At previous talks, the presence of the cameras...
...spite of the progress being made on procedural matters, the University's numerical goals are extremely modest, and in some areas even regressive...
Still, there was some reason to regret Dunlop's departure. His style marked him off from the rest of the grey bureaucrats who have come to predominate around here, even though they are at least commited as he was to impending progress. Dunlop at least had a sense of commitment to match his engaging personality: his tactics, although expedient in an immediate sense, at least channeled events toward goals he valued sincerely and highly. Most of us accurately viewed him as an adversary, but he was at least the kind we could simultaneously chuckle at and respect even...
Guinier seemed shocked by the report. He refused to comment on its substance for almost two weeks after it was issued and even took an ad in The Crimson where he urged interested people to read his Department's own progress report if they were interested in his feelings on Afro-American Studies at Harvard...