Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would, given its novel renewed lease on life, probably pass in the next few years--but realistically it could well go in the way of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in name, but did little else to support the rights of blacks. The real progress of the women's rights movement in America has been, and will continue to be, agonizingly slow. We are still an outrageously sexist nation, and there are only minor signs of change, and the feminist movement has by and large collapsed into a rather bizarre disarray. Yet 100,000 people marched in Washington...
Then he paused for a moment and remarked in a way that seemed uncommonly frank: "You know, I think, to be perfectly honest about it, successes have not yet been notable. We have made some progress in the Middle East, on SALT, on energy, only relative success. But I don't have any reticence about addressing these inherently difficult issues. I don't fear a rebuff or a defeat so much that I am afraid to try. It would have been a devastating blow to me politically and to my image as a leader had the Senate rejected...
...Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They then drove off in the car of a waiting accomplice. Meanwhile, the police have had little to say about the progress of the Moro case itself since the arrest last month of six people who have been charged (along with five others still at large) with complicity in Moro's assassination...
...intercollegiate level, HEW has preferred to encourage rather than intervene. Prodded by three formal complaints by women students and their parents, the University of Michigan, which perennially runs one of the most successful men's athletic programs in the nation, has made considerable progress toward equality. In 1973 the school had only informal competition for women; now, just five years later, it has ten varsity teams, to the men's eleven. Next year Michigan will award the equivalent of 30 scholarships at a cost of $100,000, compared with the 190 at over $700,000 that will...
...office has department-wide oversight of budgeting, planning, procurement, and reorganization. Though HEW deals with human beings and not hardware, Califano wants to quantify program goals as much as possible. He has set up targets for reducing waste and improving services and is keeping a monthly watch on the progress that is being made. The campaign is already paying off. The average time for processing disability insurance claims in the Kansas City, Mo., bureau, for instance, used to be 104 days. By the first quarter of this year the period was down to 80 days, well within reach of Califano...