Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country right nearby." Sasson describes himself firmly and comfortably as "a liberal"--which itself distinguishes him from people in Washington these days--but says he is not politically active, "beyond voting." Bellenson is "not interested in conventional politics" and would like "a politics that would facilitate social progress." He says these progressive sentiments make him "an aberration" in Silicon Valley, but they lead, in any event, to the same result as Sasson's lack of interest: no involvement in electoral politics. Bellenson also feels, for all his radical sentiments, that government has nothing to contribute to the development...
Last Wednesday the two Russians and one American aboard the Mir space station were playing a video game with the highest possible stakes. Outside, an unmanned Progress cargo ship hung in space, pointing its television camera toward Mir. Inside, Commander Vasily Tsibliyev watched a monitor as he operated a pair of joysticks, coaxing the robot ship in for a docking. But inexplicably, Progress stopped responding to Tsibliyev's commands and rammed the station. The collision damaged Mir's solar panels and punctured its hull, threatening not only the lives of the crew but perhaps the future of U.S.-Russian collaboration...
...Russia space officials still believe they can save the station they've got. In July they will launch another Progress ship, this one with electrical cables and repair equipment, and they are devising a plan for the cosmonauts to access the stricken Spektr module in an effort to tap the pod's solar panels and restore power to the rest of the station. Should this fail and Mir's systems collapse completely, the crew could abandon ship in a Soyuz spacecraft docked outside, though they've already had to plunder a bit of the escape pod's precious thruster fuel...
...much of the abuses, in charge of Congress. Still, the President has remained curiously silent on the matter, barely mentioning it since the February speech until making reforms the subject of last Saturday's radio address: "Let's not let them get away with it. ... Congress has made little progress toward reform since that time, and it's clear that the legislation will not pass - will not even be voted on - by Independence Day." A few days later, Clinton attended fundraisers in New York and Boston that rounded up another $2.5 million in campaign contributions for Democrats. Meanwhile, a reform...
...mean we have given up on idealism and given in to the fact that we cannot change the world? Maybe our way of changing the world is by living our lives for ourselves. Is it fair to say that it's not idealistic to want self-gain, self-progress and self-gratification? Isn't it possible that our point of view may be that preservation of self is the best solution to making the world a better place? You seem to be correct in saying my generation is very materialistic; we care about the cars we drive and the houses...