Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McKinnon said that the Rhodes had been "the central object" of his week but that he was able to make little progress until the night before Friday's 10 a.m. deadline...
...what of the Barker Center itself? Hadn't I read all the articles about the controversy over whether to preserve the historic Freshman Union, butter patties on the ceiling and all, or to rip it down in the name of progress and the need for more office space? I had, throughout the planning stages and construction of the Barker Center, favored the preservation of the Union for preservation's sake alone, not having ever eaten in the Union but feeling rather that History is History and should be left as is. All of that feeling went out a shiny, clean...
...number of levels is necessary-after all, if nothing ever changed, Harvard would still be lit by candles and attended only by young white men. But the question of changing our physical surroundings is more complex. Change for the sake of change, for the sake of making imagined progress is surely wrong. Witness the apparently imminent destruction of The Tasty, that greasy but truly historical establishment on JFK Street. Do we really need to empty that space in order to fill it with yet another bank, yet another office, or worse still, a fast food restaurant with just as much...
...meantime, they will use economics to make change, but not necessarily progress. The new party leadership's support for scaling back state-owned businesses is increasing unemployment with no safety net for displaced workers. Florcruz reports that while many of the downsized are retrained for new jobs, others end up washing cars or, in the bleak factory-driven Northern economy, "standing on street corners and wandering the parks...
...meant, explains a senior U.S. diplomat, that "she would go to focus on the broader political initiative once we saw progress on the security issues." An Albright visit was held out to the Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue...