Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number one priority. Direct solicitation of alumni for funds, providing vans for student group transportation use and negotiating reduced fees for campus performance spaces are just the first steps. If the President and Vice President focus on this type of issue, then there is a chance for real progress to made in improving student life on campus...
Nonetheless, all Gephardt's good works will be tarnished until he tones down his protectionist rhetoric and gets down to dollars and sense. Without such a shift, Gephardt is both hurting his chances at the presidency in 2000 and threatening economic progress at home and abroad well into the millenium...
...certain sense, the offensive line's progress encapsulates that of the Harvard program toward this peak of the Ivy League championship. Players who have worked together for several seasons now have sufficient confidence in each other to mesh into a winning unit...
Washington influence peddling is that rare arena in which Gates is a legitimate underdog. Sun, Oracle and Netscape--the ABM (Anybody But Microsoft) coalition's holy trinity--have emerged as a potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates...
...school pool, says when he was a student, he entered through the "black door" and a black student grabbed him by the throat until another black classmate said DeBlasio was "cool" and should be left alone. Still, DeBlasio, who says his best friend is black, believes there has been progress. "When my father was growing up in Brooklyn, I don't think he had a single black friend," he says. "[Racism] still exists, but it isn't as blatant as it used...