Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...July, great progress occurred when both nations agreed to allow on-site inspection of facilities by the other during the proposed destruction of existing weapons. This systematic approach replaces the "challenge system" in which only suspected violations are investigated. But the rights and duties of the inspectors and the host country are still under negotiation...
...economy appears to be getting up off the canvas, these higher interest rates are likely to knock it down again. Said Republican Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago's Harris Trust and Savings Bank: "The interest-rate decline, which was getting under way and making significant progress, has been aborted." Greenspan predicted that the economy could not return to solid growth until mortgage rates declined to about 10%. He did not see that happening before early 1981 at the soonest. The cost of mortgages has fallen to 12% or so from last spring's peaks...
UCLA head coach Bob Horn said he was "tickled to death that water polo's now a varsity sport at Harvard." But Horn wasn't laughing at the Crimson. "I'm really pleased with the progress that Harvard has already made. They did everything right, but our competition is tougher, so our tempo is just a little bit higher. The Ivy League is going to provide us with some good competition in the near future...
Delegates from France, Britain and other countries soundly criticized the Carter Administration for holding back progress on the use of nuclear power. Franz Josef Strauss, who is challenging West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next month's national elections, was the bluntest. "Whoever fails to take advantage of nuclear energy condemns himself to social backwardness," he said. "The future belongs to those countries that push ahead with nuclear energy...
...Thurow's analysis, the Government is largely responsible for the economic malaise because it cannot or will not resist growing demands by Americans for a risk-free society. Workers want guaranteed jobs with high salaries, and bosses want certain profits. Argues Thurow: "We have tried to combine economic progress with economic security. Everyone wants both, but everyone cannot have both." The result has been an undynamic economy with sluggish growth and chronically high inflation...