Word: progressing
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...President declared himself "frustrated" by the lack of progress but stopped short of holding the summiteers in Washington during the August recess to complete the job. Now, with the threat of a recession heightened by a leap in oil prices triggered by the Persian Gulf crisis, Bush and Congress have only 20 legislative days left before the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deadline falls. If no agreement can be reached on paring the deficit to $64 billion by Oct. 1, across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, closing airports, canceling children's vaccinations and forcing federal...
...single event in history to which the call to order can be linked, it is World War I. The appalling chaos, the industrialization of death, the grinding of a whole generation into the mud of France by advanced technology -- these spelled an end to positivist fantasies of human progress. And after the carnage of the trenches, who but a cretin or a fascist could echo the futurists' rhetoric about war as the hygiene of civilization? To many artists it must have seemed that picking up the pieces had priority over more fragmentation...
...people the least likely to move far from home if white and most likely to migrate northward if black. It was the one region, as Woodward so tellingly noted, whose people knew what it meant to lose a war and understood there was nothing inevitable about progress. It was, finally, the least changed demographically of all the nation's geographic subdivisions. Black and white Southerners alike had been relatively unchanged by new waves of migration, voluntary or involuntary, for more than 100 years. Regional population growth was minimal...
Mississippi's department of economic and community development launched a last-minute recall of national advertisements. However, it came too late for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, which ran the copy. Pointing with pride to progress in the Magnolia State, the ads extoll Governor Ray Mabus' sweeping new educational-reform package. Unfortunately, during a special session this summer, the state legislature refused to fund the program...
...tales of his evolution to widely-acclaimed human rights champion and critic of the Soviet regime are fascinating--never does Sakharov consciously break ties with the past. Sakharov humbly relates the succession of events where he faithfully follows his conscience, and his eventual publication of the essay, "Reflections of Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom" in the New York Times in 1968 which overnight garnered the scientist international fame...