Word: progressism
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...quality is among the world's worst) that could embarrass China during next summer's Olympic Games, the central government has made no move to curb vehicle purchases through regulation or taxes. And that, in turn, has made it harder for governments in the developed world to make progress in getting Beijing to do more to fight climate change...
Today's girls are also doing well by these measures, but their successes in no way diminish the progress of the boys. In fact, together our kids are reversing one of the direst problems of the previous generation: the teen-pregnancy epidemic. According to the new report, fewer than half of all high school boys and girls in 2005 were sexually active. For the boys, that's a decrease of 10 percentage points from the early 1990s. Boys who are having sex report that they are more responsible about it: 7 in 10 are using condoms, compared with about half...
...that broader strategic contest that hangs over the talks between the two sides in Iraq. Absent a "grand bargain" in which Iran and the U.S. find a formula for peaceful and stable coexistence throughout the region, occasional and very public encounters in Iraq are unlikely to produce much progress...
Gilbert’s contract will require him to conduct for 12 weeks each year for five years. He will also lead the orchestra on international tours and preside over its artistic progress...
...1960s and ‘70s, we must not teach Martin Luther King, Jr. without mention of the Black Panthers; we should not invoke Woodstock without noting the Weathermen. To do so is to offer a two-dimensional picture that conforms to an imagined trajectory of continuous progress rather than the more complicated—and more interesting—reality of U.S. history...