Word: progressing
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...grim answer: through a "civil war" already in progress. "I have witnessed the struggle for the soul of American Jewry. It has torn asunder families, communities and congregations," he writes. He describes the embarrassment and rage felt by more liberal Jews at Yale University when some Orthodox students sued to avoid living in co-ed dorms; the dismay of the alumni of a secular Jewish summer camp in New York State upon discovering that their alma mater had been supplanted by the ultra-Orthodox community of Monsey; and the pressures that drove a troubled Orthodox gas-station cashier in Jacksonville...
Powell and the Republicans used each other and, perhaps, to good ends. Maybe at the next convention there will be a progress report from George W. Bush. Maybe we can have one from America's Promise. If we are still building more prisons than classrooms, I want to be there when Powell tells the G.O.P. that the good-heartedness of volunteers and the generosity of corporations and the support of faith-based charities haven't been enough. That there are pieces of the problem needing more, not less, government. Then I'll be listening for the applause...
Clinton is inclined to okay the export to a NATO ally. But there's a snag. Two years ago, the Administration promised that it would not approve the sale unless Turkey made "significant progress" on seven human-rights benchmarks. State Department reports reveal that Turkey still flunks them all. Administration aides are looking for ways to get out of the promise, but "we're going to hold them to it," says Amnesty International's Maureen Greenwood...
...Sample quote, from Reed: "The question is the amendment to the amendment... Those opposed sit down, and those opposed stand up. OK, that's fairly overwhelming. Thank you. We are making progress." Light applause...
...doctors were learning new ways to treat and prevent heart attacks, which occur when the flow of oxygen-rich blood is partially interrupted and some of the heart tissue dies. He had his second and third in 1984 and 1988, during a decade of extraordinary progress in the medical and surgical treatment of heart disease. By the time he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in August 1988, the procedure had become almost routine...