Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interventionist role in world affairs and retard the rate of domestic economic growth. Military power should be renounced and industrial expansion denounced. It is not hard to sympathize with such concerns: ravaged villages in Vietnam and foul air over Los Angeles are not pretty sights or monuments to moral progress...
Unfortunately, the U.S. has yet to adopt a policy that is appropriate to that challenge. However, it is not surprising that it has taken so long to make relatively little progress in the energy area because of the vast sums of money involved, the varying perceptions of the Another major complicating factor is that different regions of the nation are fighting one another over the money involved...
...Soviet Union already has severe economic problems, and the progress of the Soviet people will now be set back even more," Eckstein said. "They may come to their senses and choose goals other than military adventurism," he added
...year after Mao's death, the Party hierarchy emerged victorious Deng Xiaoping, former Secretary General and now newly anointed as Vice Premier, led the return of the Party. With the legacy of poverty and ineffective educational and economic leadership, it is unlikely, despite new pragmatic rhetoric and uneven progress toward openness, that China will join the ranks of the advanced industrial powers before the 21st century...
...preachments seemed to have little effect, as the Shah set about building the most thoroughly Westernized nation in all of the Muslim world. The progress achieved in a deeply backward country was stunning. Petroleum revenues built steel mills, nuclear power plants, telecommunication systems and a formidable military machine, complete with U.S. supersonic fighters and missiles. Dissent was ruthlessly suppressed, in part by the use of torture in the dungeons of SAVAK, the secret police. It is still not clear how widespread the tortures and political executions were; but the Shah did not heed U.S. advice to liberalize his regime...