Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emerging from his Washington talks last week, Ismail told newsmen "there has been progress"-even though neither side had offered any new plans. Far livelier and franker discussions are likely to take place at the White House this week, when Mrs. Meir makes her annual shopping trip. In light of last week's events, the atmosphere may be rather cool...
Should one clam up about such a system? The Communist nations are the most dangerous, because most powerful, threat to freedom and progress in the world today, and it would be immoral--to use a word with The Crimson likes--to keep silent. As a socialist, I feel as well that the reality of the Communist states is the most effective argument against socialism, and that therefore democratic socialists must clearly demonstrate that their vision of the future has nothing to do with totalitarianism. Steven Kelman...
...French discontent evidently runs far deeper. Despite the evidence of economic progress, prosperity has not sufficiently filtered down to many blue-and white-collar workers and professionals, as well as elderly people living on wretched pensions. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 15 million workers earn less than $300 a month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem...
...annual state of the environment report, President Nixon last week was almost rhapsodic: "I can report that we are well on our way to winning the war against environmental degradation, well on the way to making our peace with nature." While some progress has been made, the nation's battle for ecological health has hardly been won, as the multitude of proposals put forth by Nixon himself proved...
...feeling is to strike a balance between the two," he said. "We will not dry up the intellectual sources for applied progress...