Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, he said that progress toward educational reform and cooperation between different faculties of the University has been made, but that "it's too early to tell just how much has been accomplished in that area...
...relatively light. After the North Vietnamese began their Easter offensive, he covered major action all over South Viet Nam and became a virtual commuter on Route 13, which runs between Saigon and An Loc. He would set out from the capital in the morning by car to cover the progress of the South Vietnamese 21 st Division as it fought its way with agonizing slowness toward An Loc and the relief of the garrison encircled there...
...final vote was announced, Brandt, his face impassive, sat stoically on the government's front bench. The treaties-and with them the attendant progress toward East-West détente-had carried well enough. But the fact that the opposition C.D.U. had abstained almost to a man deprived Brandt of the "broad majority" he had labored to achieve and was a dismaying reversal of a carefully worked out bipartisan compromise...
...million building, which had been specially put up for them by the nearly broke Chilean government. They listened to 1,120 hours of speeches, mostly impassioned pleas for preferential trade deals and fat increases in foreign aid for developing countries. But they made no real progress. As one weary U.S. delegate explained: "The conference presumes that the U.S. is a giant cow and that there should be a teat for every developing country in the world...
...date, Noah has made some measurable progress. Occasionally he blurts a word or flashes a gesture, indicating a slim connection to this world. But it is likely, as he grows older and harder to handle, that he will have to be institutionalized. It is a prospect that the Greenfelds view with conflicting dread and relief. For as Greenfeld tactfully conveys in this moving collection of a year's journal entries, the family of any abnormal child is almost equally victimized. With a novelist's skill and perceptions, Greenfeld tells not only of the daily burden of Noah...