Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...high tech, bicycles have long seemed old-fashioned, a classical conveyance stuck with a century-old design: two equal-size wheels, a welded steel frame, manual gear shifting, pedals and a chain. While cars have loaded up with electronic gadgetry, bicycles have watched the wheels of progress roll...
...less likely to approve the Administration's future trade agreements with Eastern Europe and new rules being negotiated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. House majority leader Richard Gephardt was just as opposed: "At the very moment when we're beginning to see signs of tangible progress, the Administration seems to be saying it's time to back up and back...
...thought I was going to participate in a great spiritual renaissance. What I have found instead is that a traumatized psyche has combined with a self- congratulatory ethos to distort the true meaning of the Jewish tradition. Hardly a day passes without my wondering if we will ever progress beyond the ghetto mentality that repudiates dialogue with the best of human thought and culture. Retaining one's sanity and belief in the future is a constant challenge here...
...take the Bible back from those who would use it as a club: that is Hartman's mission. Ironically, had the great nation-building Labor Party leaders better appreciated what makes Israel special, Hartman's mission might not have been necessary. "Our founders saw religion as the enemy of progress," says Hartman. "They wanted to create an indigenous, secular Israeli. Religious concerns were ceded to the ultra-orthodox, who have never understood the need for Judaism to incorporate democratic values." Because Israeli society failed to develop a compelling spiritual option to replace the victim-oriented philosophy of the East European...
...allowed to leave Vietnam if they wish, and political prisoners freed from re- education camps. Questions about the remaining POW/MIAs should be resolved. So runs the checklist of U.S.-Vietnamese policy, as it has for much of the past decade. Hanoi insists that it has met the conditions. Although progress has been made on all of these issues, Washington is not yet satisfied...