Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelists said education has made little real progress since the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, which desegregated U.S. schools...
...citizens of the twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...
Beyond my grammar-school instinct which says to me that telling on people is just no good, it is my strong belief that no real progress will come of the administration punishing these two people. They will likely only get more angry and less tolerant, and they will not reflect on what they have done...
...students, most of whom are affiliated with the minority group ALANA (African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans), took over the Goodell Building Monday morning to protest what they see as a lack of progress at UMass in addressing several longstanding minority student concerns...
Recurring in time across China's history has been the story of the rise and decline of successive dynasties. Since the 1900s, Chinese historians have strenuously attacked this traditional way of looking at history as violating any claims in China to development and progress. They feel that such an idea lies behind the concept of "an unchanging China," which has been so damaging to foreign assessments of China's development. Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying...