Word: furthering
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Congressional leaders, who have threatened tough trade sanctions against Japan unless it opens its markets further, greeted the Japanese pledges with practiced caution. Said Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "Put me down as a skeptic who has seen too many agreements in which the results...
The line extended with further training under composer-conductor Pierre Boulez and at the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, where Thomas won the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting. By 1965 he was William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony. And then, like all understudies in show-biz song and saga...
No one worries about the relevance of quantum mechanics to the momentum of a charging elephant. But there are events on the border between the visible and the invisible in which quantum effects could conceivably come into play. Possible examples: biochemical reactions and the firing of neurons in the brain...
The security forces have also been hauled further into line. Last month top officers of the People's Armed Police Force, who were criticized for failing to contain last year's upheavals, were replaced by army generals. Police officers were given doses of ideological indoctrination and loads of new antiriot...
The U.S. Congress, meantime, stepped up its efforts to pressure Bush into showing displeasure with Moscow's tactics. By a 416-to-3 vote, the House passed a non-binding resolution urging the President to recognize an independent Lithuania "at the earliest possible time." Meanwhile, 31 Senators sent a letter...