Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement people. I don't know whom they're speaking for. They seem to be making individual bids for stardom." It's easy to dismiss the voices of Old Guard feminists as the typical complaints of leaders nostalgic for their days at center stage. But is Ally McBeal really progress? Maybe if she lost her job and wound up a single mom, we could begin a movement again...
...such small steps is progress made. Beijing's leaders seem immune to bullying, but dogged dialogue and economic advancement are persuading them to allow more personal liberties. Chinese citizens today lead remarkably free lives, as masters of their own fates and fortunes. Satellite dishes and the Internet beam in unauthorized information undreamed of a few years ago. Beijing has slowly been enshrining into law such individual prerogatives as property protection and the right to sue. The Chinese can even mock their leaders and criticize government policies--in the privacy of their homes. Beijing, in theory, opened itself up to international...
...have changed several times, oscillating between the newly formed Democratic Forces and the Socialists (ex-communists). The much-talked-about restructuring of the economy from a planned to a market one has not yet taken place; the much needed privatization of industry and land reforms has been slow to progress in the face of vast squandering of land and capital. The result has been a quasi-market economy without a solid framework of law (much legislation is still in the making) and without private ownership of industry. Six months ago, the economy was said to have reached "the absolute rock...
...blunt. "We still think we can proceed and we'll do so," she said on Wednesday. "We will prevail in the long run," a senior Justice official told The Netly News. "You have to look at these things like other epic legal battles. There are days when you have progress. This was a step backwards." Says the official: "These judges are wrong, and their decision, if it were binding, that's not what the law is. We filed a broad case involving a wide variety of unlawful action...
...autonomy within the Yugoslavian federation. But even in the unlikely event that he complies, Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority would keep on fighting for independence from Belgrade. So air strikes are simply a short-term strategy to stop the Serb campaign against civilians. "There's no hope of any progress unless Milosevic makes some concessions, and so far he has given away nothing at all," says Calabresi. "He is pushing the situation toward violent confrontation." Perhaps the sight of Holbrooke will jog his memory...