Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis helped people to understand the real issue. This is not a technological crisis. It is a social crisis, a sign of a confused society lacking well-defined priorities. There is no question that natural resources must be preserved and prudently managed. There is no question that growth and progress cannot be suppressed. We need statesmanship at the highest national level to assure a sound balance between the preservation of nature and the just as imperative demand to supply the energy needs of tomorrow...
Hints. The entire McGovern phenomenon-his progress from near-obscurity to something like a fait accompli-has left the Democratic Party in a state bordering on stupefaction. Only now, perhaps too late, are the party's regulars beginning to shake off their astonishment and think of ways to avert what many of them regard as the disaster of a McGovern candidacy. But thus far no one has produced a candidate, an organization or a plausible scenario to stop McGovern...
...tenacious concern for the welfare of his men. When he arrived, the North Vietnamese were well along within their borders on the massive buildup for last April's all-out offensive. Lavelle's air reconnaissance crews provided a regular flow of reports and photographs chronicling its progress. A veteran Air Force "tiger" who flew 76 combat missions in World War II, Lavelle, 55, decided he could not sit idly by while Hanoi continued to assemble its war machine. So he made the extraordinary decision to take matters into his own hands...
...synovium (the membrane lining the joint capsule) and subsequent erosion of the enclosed cartilage and bone. Doctors generally prescribe painkillers and other anti-inflammatory drugs including common aspirin. But according to Dr. Alan Wilde of the Cleveland Clinic, early surgery may provide more permanent relief and slow the progress of the disease as well. Wilde told a scientific session of the Arthritis foundation that he had performed synovectomies on 39 patients, delicately removing the inflamed tissue from a total of 121 finger joints. Most of the patients experienced complete relief of pain, while a few showed partial improvement. Arrosion...
There is a "World Progress Report" that features only good news, such as the intelligence that the U.N.'s new "disaster relief coordinator" has begun to attempt to coordinate relief. From International Editor Roland Gelatt (based in London) comes a detailed analysis of what will happen to London's Covent Garden Market when the area undergoes urban renewal 18 months hence...