Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your so-called definition of Opus Dei as "a mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress" is not only unfortunate, but it is also unfair to me personally since I belong to Opus Dei I have never aspired to combine this "cocktail" of the spiritual with temporal progress nor am I subjected to any kind of discipline or connected with any "mystical network.' Belonging to Opus Dei concerns only my private life and does not affect at all my opinions or my political activity for which I alone am responsible...
Square One. Yet, almost inexplicably after its earlier pessimism, the White House seemed to exude a private sense that the peace could be made in Paris this month. Its current mood-involving almost a willing suspension of disbelief-was based in part on some apparent progress in the newly resumed secret technical talks, which were delving into the mechanics of the cease-fire-how large the international control commission should be, for instance, and what powers it should have...
When the attacks on him began, they were directed more at his hostility to progress than at the man himself. In 1909, 1910 and 1911, in a series of bitter confrontations, his three great powers were stripped away and Cannon himself was forced to step down. It was the beginning of the long erosion of congressional power. Some current suggestions for reform have an unmistakable whiff of Cannonism to them, notably Carl Albert's plan to exact "loyalty oaths" from new Democratic members of the Rules Committee. Cannon himself would have been horrified by such halfway measures. When...
Most of the economic progress has come from increased foreign investment. In "Export Processing Zones," workers eat, sleep, and work in new factory complexes. The products are all exported and as a result are duty-free. The manufacturers, mostly American and Japanese, come to Taiwan because the workers are measurably more efficient than those of their own countries, and because at a dollar a day, they are cheaper...
...this progress is threatened by what the newspapers call "diplomatic setbacks." The Nixon visit to Peking was a tremendous blow to Taiwan. And if Tanaka cuts off Japanese trade Taiwan will plunge into an instant depression...