Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ports indefinitely. The dockers also rejected recommendations for government job guarantees and substantial increases in retirement pay. It was an indication of the deep, visceral uneasiness of Britain's dockers. Though they are among the country's best-paid workers, they are being mercilessly squeezed by progress: modernization has wiped out 18,000 jobs on the docks in the past few years...
...news for black Americans was also good and bad. Between 1960 and 1970, the Census Bureau said, blacks made significant progress in education, income, job opportunities and housing. The greatest improvements occurred in the North and West among black families where the parents were under the age of 35, especially when both husband and wife were working. The high school dropout rate for blacks decreased sharply to 11.1% in 1971 , compared with 7.4% for whites. On the college level, the number of black students enrolled rose from 10% to 18%, compared with a constant 22% for whites...
Normalization. The second mark of progress in U.S.-Soviet trade was made by Pullman Inc., which reported that it had become the first American industrial company to get permission to open an office in Moscow.* The Chicago-based company will be entitled to hire Soviet staff members and keep three U.S. employees in Moscow. Pullman has sold designs for five ammonia plants to the Soviets, and last December its Swindell-Dressier division won a $10 million contract to design the foundry of the huge new Kama River truck plant in the Tatar Republic. Says President Samuel B. Casey: "We expect...
...outline, an unprepossessing story-a punk's progress. In this first novel, Theodore Weesner's tones are flat, sometimes excessively precise. Yet the book develops a building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...
Though Pen Duick had been one of the pre-race favorites, its progress during the crossing was largely unnoticed. For one thing, Colas's radio was not always working; for another, most fans followed rapturous reports on Vendredi 13, a massive, three-masted schooner built specially for the event by American Designer Dick Carter, bankrolled by French Film Director Claude (A Man and a Woman) Lelouch, and sailed by Parisian Swinger Jean-Yves Terlain. By all accounts, Vendredi was well ahead and less than a day from Newport when Lelouch chartered a plane to add some footage...