Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progress has not been spread equally over various groups in the population. Smoking among blacks and blue-collar workers is higher than average. Level of education is the best predictor of tobacco use: the more years of schooling people have, the less likely they are to smoke...
...global boom in peacemaking that brightened 1988 is continuing into the new year -- and into the new American Administration. The cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war is holding, and there is progress toward an end to the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea. But in the background of all the promising jaw-jaw going on at conference tables around the world is the muted but discordant sound of the superpowers bickering over which one deserves more credit for peace breaking...
...foreign policy officials see the current diplomatic progress as a vindication of the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. has supplied arms to anti-Marxist "freedom fighters" around the world. "A common thread was the emergence of a balance of forces that has convinced the parties involved that a military solution isn't possible," says Michael Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "It was our policy to help preserve that balance, making a political solution more likely...
...month. The run-up is a side effect of rising interest rates, which the Federal Reserve has allowed to climb as a means of preventing inflation. But the U.S. and most European central banks decided last week to restrain the dollar by intervening in the currency markets. Reason: U.S. progress in narrowing its trade deficit is likely to be hampered by too strong a currency, since it increases the prices -- and reduces the competitiveness -- of American products...
Tourists and Florentines alike often forget their carefully timed itineraries so that they can follow the progress. Dutch traveler David Casale could not understand why the city was so apologetic. "It's absolutely fascinating. I can see you might get upset if this was for an underground car park, but they are discovering something important here." Mary Rau, an American visitor to Florence who lives in London, curtailed time at the Uffizi Gallery to stare at the hole in the ground. "See the archways they are uncovering? And they're bringing up shards of pottery. They're onto something...