Word: progress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be relatively moderate, or at least flexible. He had tried to attend the U.N. debate. Said he: "We want to demonstrate how the U.S. ruled our nation during the Shah's regime." Despite such rhetoric, U.S. officials hoped that private talks in New York might make some progress. Banisadr also opposed any trial of the U.S. hostages. He told a delegation of Western ambassadors that he would "do what I can to prevent it." (His chief accomplishment as minister, in fact, had been the release of 13 blacks and women from the captured embassy.) Last week he joined...
Linguistic progress with the "idioglossia" twins...
...Council began considering ways to increase the number of tenured women and minorities after Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to the Dean, submitted his annual report on affirmative action. The report noted the Faculty had made little progress in recruiting tenured minorities and women...
Irving likes to read from his most recent chapter-in-progress because "it's boring to read finished works--they're a dead issue. There's a different kind of self awareness that you get when you read to an audience than when you read to an old friend or your kids," he added...
...that's definitely progress...