Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murmured support for separate-but-equal education is growing more audible within the N.A.A.C.P., it may be because so little progress has been made since those historic days. Says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "You're beating your head up against the wall until it's bloody. At some point you have to ask, 'Should I continue to beat up against this wall?' To ask that question is not a terrible thing...
...documentary that is generating renewed interest in the crime. Investigators say the timing is coincidental. The bombing holds a special place in civil rights history not only because of its brutality and the youth of its victims, but also because it so bitterly dashed the hopes for nonviolent progress that had been raised only weeks before, when Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Lewis says it is important that investigators continue to pursue the case until it yields up the murderers. "If they are brought to justice," he says, "just maybe...
When an unmanned progress resupply ship docked with the ailing Mir space station last week, astronaut Michael Foale had good reason to smile. Among the two tons of equipment hauled up for a risky orbital repair that his two Russian companions are slated to attempt later this week were replacements for his lost toothbrush, shaving kit and sneakers. Freshly groomed and shod, Foale was nothing if not upbeat when he talked to NASA boss Daniel Goldin, himself under heat for allowing Americans to continue working aboard the 11-year-old Mir. "The safety concerns, I think, are well met," said...
...Gomes said his progress towards a policy was not influenced by concern about criticism...
Shortly before 7 P.M., as most Washingtonians staked out picnic areas on the Mall ahead of the capital's annual fireworks display, Vice President Al Gore logged on to a computer in his home to view some pyrotechnics of the digital kind. Gore had been following Pathfinder's progress all day. And now he was seeing the first images, sent by E-mail to a few top officials before they were made public. The color mosaic of the rocky Martian landscape as seen from Pathfinder so excited Gore that he rushed back to his White House office after the fireworks...