Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Permanent Committee on Women shall report publicly to the Harvard community every year on the progress of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences toward meeting the guidelines set out above. Department chairmen shall be required to report to the Dean of the Faculty annually on the numbers of women at all levels presently in the department, including entering graduate students; on the women considered for any appointments made that year; on the relative allocation of funds and fellowships (including teaching fellowships) to men and women; and on the relative success (and reasons for lack of success) in placing male...
...familiar irony that the progress of civilization has turned the earth into an elaborately sophisticated armed camp. During 1969-70, the money that human beings spent on the means of killing one another rose to an alltime peak of $204 billion-as much as the income produced in a year by the 1.8 billion people in the poorer half of the world's population...
There is real concern in Egypt and Israel alike that unless some progress is made on the Suez plan, fighting may break out again by September. That is when the summer heat begins to abate. It is also when the three-nation Arab federation is scheduled to come into existence, and at least one of the founders, Libya's mercurial Gaddafi, will be putting pressure on Sadat to take some action against Israel. Sadat told Rogers that if there are no results by September, he anticipates tremendous domestic pressure to resume fighting...
...barge canals and rail lines cross East German territory. But the three Western powers insist that before the two Germanys talk about modalities of access, the Russians must sign an agreement that would be binding on the East Germans. This is one of the central issues that have snarled progress toward a relaxation of tensions in central Europe...
Pretty Good Idea. The chief worry is that if there is no progress, the rough equilibrium in nuclear weapons that now exists between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will eventually be upset. Already, both sides have started running the next lap in the arms race: the U.S. has begun deploying Hydraheaded, almost unstoppable MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle) missiles in the Minuteman 3 and Poseidon submarine programs, and the Soviets may be on the verge of fitting their giant S59 missiles with multiple warheads...