Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Since then, there has been some progress toward democratic reform. The current provisional President, General Policarpo Paz Garcia, has agreed to cede power to a civilian government that will be elected next year. Last April's voting for a Constitutional Assembly gave a majority to the old Liberal Party, which was last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort...
...world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy--everything. Already...
...coming its way on a private trip. After Billy and his delegation arrived in Libya, a dispatch from the embassy noted that "some members of the Georgia delegation obviously are interested in relieving Libya of some of its petrodollars. Though they do not seem to have made much progress yet." The most important cable, and the only one stamped CONFIDENTIAL, was sent at the end of Billy's five-day visit to Tripoli. It reported: "There has been no negative fallout from Billy Carter's visit... We would rate it a very positive event which has opened some...
...second-and third-generation descendants of German immigrants, the city prides itself on being the home of the thrifty, the hard working and the tidy. Houses are neatly painted, lawns well kept, streets clean. Main Street is currently being resurfaced, and the perky detour sign reads: PARDON OUR PROGRESS...
...applicants. One typically enthusiastic student is Senior Bob Robertson, 36, a Ford engineer who took one college course per term at night school for 15 years before enrolling in Weekend College. Says Robertson, who will graduate this month: "During two years in this program, I have made more progress toward the degree than I had in the past...