Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worldwide efforts to contain and cure AIDS are making progress, but if nations do not act together to stop its spread in the Third World, as much as 60 percent of poor nations' populations could become infected, experts said at a conference this week...
...course, progress in a peace negotiation must often be measured in shifts of tone. Thus what Arce did not say may be more important. He ruled out neither diplomatic talks nor a negotiated cease-fire. Moreover, a day earlier, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra obliquely suggested that he might be willing to meet with the rebels. His refusal thus far, Ortega told TIME, "is not a dogmatic position or a position of principle. It's simply a realistic position. If I were sure that by talking to the contras we could solve the problem of the war, we would have talked...
...Reason: Gorbachev is anxious to reassert Soviet influence on the Middle East peace process and realizes that will be difficult so long as Moscow has no diplomatic ties with one of the region's major players. Jerusalem has made it clear to the Soviets that progress on the matter is directly related to Moscow's future record on Jewish emigration...
After the patients have left for a meal, the actors analyze their progress: "He was struggling with himself. There was the constant repetition of the idea of breaking a chain." "I'm worried about him -- it's so hard to see where he's operating from." "He broke down yesterday in the divorce scene." "He's coming out from the cupboard." "He wants to do a birthday-party scene in which his father dies...
...Progress has not been good," said Sheila W. Wellington, secretary of the university. But she added that "things continue to go acceptably" and that "we still remain cautiously optimistic...