Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know if we'll ever get to the point where there are no categories," she says. "But I do hope that we make significant progress toward a point where categories are not regulated so fiercely and people are not punished or discriminated against for moving from one to the other...
...said that although currently progress in dealing with these issues is not moving as rapidly as desired, future events will change this...
Wordlessly, Foale reversed direction and raced toward the Soyuz. He was aware that at this very second, at least, there was no real reason to abandon ship. Yes, Progress was closing in, but Tsibliyev was at the controls, and hadn't he dodged just such a bullet only weeks...
...when Foale entered the spherical transfer node that connects the main module to Soyuz and the four other modules, he felt and heard a sudden, sickening thud. Somewhere on the outside of one of the station's modules, Progress had hit fast and hard. An instant later, a deafening Klaxon went off, a signal that Mir's electronic brain was also aware of the impact...
...Foale began wrestling with connections, Lazutkin appeared alongside him and started doing the same with the cables running into Spektr. But why? As far as Foale could tell, there was no way to determine where Progress had struck Mir. Lazutkin seemed to have assumed that the Spektr lab was leaking, and he was trying to seal it off. But what if he had guessed wrong? The noise from the Klaxon prevented Foale from speaking to Lazutkin, so all he could do was finish clearing the Soyuz hatch and then move on to Spektr to help his crewmate. When the Klaxon...