Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early groundwork pays off: their SpringConcert this year features. The Mighty Bosstonesas head-liners with God Street Wine as theSecondary performers. Opening bands include thePilfers, and Clowns for Progress...
...want any foreigners involved in our society." It was of course this hostility to outsiders that kept the Khmer Rouge stuck in the jungle while the rest of Cambodia benefited from rapid economic development fueled in part by foreign investment. And it was resentment at missing out on this progress that prompted the latest, final rebellion in the Khmer Rouge ranks...
...struck a good balance in your article between the political and economic progress many African nations have made and the considerable challenges remaining for the continent. While we don't want to have unrealistic expectations, prospects for an African Renaissance are brightening. As you reported, African countries are opening their economies, allowing individuals to prosper and achieve independence from development aid. It is encouraging that Eritrean President Issaias Afewerki and other new-era African leaders understand the need for Africans to shape their own destinies, creating self-sustaining countries. The bipartisan African Growth and Opportunity Act promises to further this...
After the meeting, the GSC representatives said they were, on the whole, pleased with the progress of their discussions with Rudenstine...
...power's vertical divisions by making a gesture speak a thousand words. The entire Tiananmen uprising, in fact, was a subversion underwritten by machines, which obey no government and observe no borders: the protesters got around official restrictions by communicating with friends abroad via fax; they followed their own progress--unrecorded on Chinese TV--by watching themselves on foreigners' satellite sets in the Beijing Hotel; and in subsequent years they have used the Internet--and their Western training--to claim and disseminate an economic freedom they could not get politically...