Word: progresses
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...details of his meetings until he briefed Reagan, the moribund SALT II treaty topped the agenda. According to the Soviet news agency TASS, Brezhnev told Percy that the Soviet Union "is in favor of strengthening relations with the United States on a long-term basis," but warned that such progress could only occur if there was no "stagnation" in the two nations' efforts to limit nuclear weapons...
Without Syria or the P.L.O., the summit could not register any real progress on the centerpiece of common Arab policy, Palestinian self-determination. It merely reaffirmed the P.L.O. as "the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" and endorsed "independent statehood on Palestinian soil." In so doing, the conference seemed to reject the idea of a Palestinian state in Jordan, which many Arab observers ascribe to the incoming Reagan Administration...
Just as there is a romantic tradition that robots are inherently diabolic creatures that will rebel against human control, there is an equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being...
...conference committee met all day yesterday in an attempt to reconcile the bills, but little progress was reported...
...nothing but a show trial, as it has been thus far, then it does not show progress towards legal procedures in the Western sense," Schwartz said...