Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would prefer to see them sedentary and hence politically under control. So to keep them in place, we have the permanent pumping stations in the Sahel and the "ranches" of East Africa, destroying irreplaceable elements of the human mosaic and creating new deserts, all in the name of "progress...
...Soviets but were careful not to let expectations get out of hand. In the end, SALT was still stalemated. However, there seemed to be a minute improvement in a procedural bottleneck that has blocked a reconvening of the Geneva Conference between Israelis and Arabs. But there was no progress on the basic issues of Israel's refusal to withdraw to its 1967 borders or to accept an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank...
More than two years after coming out of the deep 1973-75 recession, the nation's economic recovery has reached middle age-and is feeling all the crotchets of that stage of life. Its youthful bounce is now just a memory, and its progress is marked more by caution than boldness. Its future looks unexcitingly predictable at best, a little worrisome at worst: relatively modest gains in production, a very gradual reduction of high unemployment, continuation of a distressing but not immediately dangerous inflation rate...
...firms frequently claim they are a force for progress in South Africa, pointing to wages that are slightly higher than the country's average--at or just above the PDL. But in their search for higher profits, these companies ask only that South African wages be lower than wages they would have to pay Americans--and their black workers earn, on average, less than a quarter of their U.S. counterparts' wages. In addition, the companies cite average pay, glossing over big differences between a handful of relatively well-paid Africans and the other black workers. Most U.S. companies...
Four years ago, she was considered "beyond help." Now she is making progress in a regular class. Lisa, 7, a slight hydrocephalic child, practiced her addition near by. When she first came to Trotter last year, she could not even hold a pencil. "If they were stuck in a hole somewhere, there's no way they could ever make it," says Barbara Fagone, who has been teaching handicapped children in her regular class for three years. How do her normal students react? "We found out last year that they're curious for exactly 20 minutes. Then...