Word: progression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both leaders said they would meet again next year in the United States, and expressed the hope--but not the certainty--they would be able to sign historic agreements in 1990 to cut long range nuclear weapons and conventional forces in Europe and make progress toward a chemical weapons...
...assuming the Gorbachev-inspired liberalization continues, the Roman Pontiff can pursue his overarching vision of reunion with the whole of Eastern Orthodoxy. The churches of the East and West are like "two lungs of a single body," John Paul is fond of saying. Religious negotiations have made surprisingly brisk progress on the ecclesiastical and theological bases for union...
...President shares power with parliament, including the selection of a Cabinet that carefully balances Lebanon's religious sects. The U.N. Security Council, the U.S. and the European Community endorsed Moawad's efforts to form a government of national unity under this revised framework, and he had been making some progress despite trouble finding Lebanese politicians willing to serve in the Cabinet...
Though that progress was slight, the bombers were evidently determined to destroy it. Many Lebanese speculated that General Michel Aoun, the bitterest foe of the Arab League peace plan and the commander of fanatically loyal Christian forces in East Beirut, was behind the killing. Aoun has been outraged that the plan permits 40,000 Syrian troops to remain indefinitely in Lebanon. He had pronounced Moawad's election void and vowed to throw out the Syrians. Aoun is too weak to achieve that goal but was strong enough to cause havoc. Before the assassination, thousands of his mostly youthful supporters crowded...
...This is nothing earth shattering," said Seamus P. Malin '62, director of the Harvard International Office. "We would want to be in the top 10, but we must progress slowly. We can't go in great leaps...