Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...proposals that have been made have major organizational, space and cost implications," Wilson said. "It's important that the progress that we make will be in ways that we can handle well...
Another lesson we should have learned has to do with the fate of the socialist idea. In the 20th century socialism has gained millions of supporters. It has become a powerful factor in the ideological and political debate, contributing to social and political progress in many countries. Nowhere, however, has the socialist idea been adequately put into practice. Socialism is not an artificial model that can be imposed on society. Any attempt to make people live, so to speak, according to a timetable is not just a utopian fallacy -- it can lead to intolerance and violence...
...great stock in his new management style--one which he says allows more careful and deliberate decision-making--some say it has often subordinated the issues to the process. Many faculty watchers have said that Bok's networks of ad-hoc committees have led to slow progress on junior faculty promotions and reform within departments, while producing unpopular decisions on several tenure decisions both in FAS and Harvard Law School...
...month-old declaration of independence. It may be a measure of his domestic difficulties that Gorbachev's most solid accomplishment came in foreign affairs. After four days of talks between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow, the two sides made substantial progress on a new arms-control treaty, making it likely that Gorbachev and George Bush can announce a basic agreement at next week's summit in Washington...
...Germanys hurtle toward unification, politicians worry about how soon it should happen and who will be the leader of the new nation. Last week Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged even speedier progress, hoping to give his Christian Democratic Party -- and Kohl -- an edge. His allies proposed advancing the date for all-German elections...