Word: progress
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...Clayton Yeutter argues that in the heavily subsidized competition for world food sales, the U.S. must not "disarm unilaterally" by abruptly abandoning Government farm supports. Yeutter and George Bush are relying instead on negotiated worldwide reductions in farm subsidies. The subject is expected to produce much talk -- and little progress -- at this week's Houston summit of the seven major industrialized democracies...
...Republicans failed in their early attempts to capture the White House. However, disenchantment with progress ultimately spelled doom for the era's "liberal" party--the Whigs--and the Republicans emerged to pick up the pieces...
...These economic summits have become framework for frank and constructive dialogue," Bush told the other leaders in the 94-degree weather. "A dialogue for progress that I believe will be advanced greatly in the next three days...
...members of the confederation still met in Frankfurt, and the Habsburg delegates still exerted unofficial leadership, but the young Prussian delegate determined that this must be changed. "Before very long," Bismarck wrote back to Berlin, 'we shall have to fight for our lives against Austria . . . because the progress of events in Germany has no other issue." Prussia's King William I appointed Bismarck Minister-President in 1862, and within four years, Bismarck was ready for a showdown with Austria. Prussia's chief of staff, Count Helmuth von Moltke, had revived the army of Frederick the Great, making it once again...
Thanks to a heightened worldwide concern about the fragility of the earth's ecology, environmental issues seem to come up more and more frequently as matters of public policy. But even by current standards, last week was remarkable for progress made on a number of important actions and proposals -- even if all parties to the various disputes could not claim total victory. Among the week's events...