Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caught off guard again. Nixon assured him that no more shokkus would be coming. When he goes to Peking, he will make no agreement that affects Japan. He did not reveal details of his agenda, but he told Sato that he expects to make only modest progress in China: some steps to expand trade, tourism and diplomatic contacts. Sato was especially fretful about Taiwan. Japan had been pressured by the U.S. into signing a peace treaty with Chiang Kai-shek in 1952, and it has complicated relations with the mainland. If the U.S. made a deal with China...
Powers said that "progress had been made" in the contract dispute which came to a head last week. He said that negotiations would resume next Wednesday...
...Just the fact that both sides are still negotiating at this point indicates to me that progress is being made," Butler said...
...Science. Despite the locale, the five-day-long extravaganza was notable for an absence of brotherly love. As in the past few years, the traditional A.A.A.S. post-Christmas gathering was long on the verbiage of political protest by radical young scientists and short on reports of noteworthy scientific progress...
...sense of the country as a whole, "us" in the sense of John Kennedy's mourners. Certainly, it's for the better that we've been deprived of some illusions, stripped of the comforting passivity of political idolatry, forced to see the New Frontier and the Alliance for Progress as a sham, compelled to recite eulogies for the War on Poverty and for the Great Society, and thrust into the reality, again, of war's immorality, seeing the innocent we've killed and living we've helped destroy. Still, there was some good in feeling some value in believing that...