Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Economic progress has propelled once unthinkable social changes. The strict, monochromatic way of living has yielded to a stunning variety of colorful life-styles. Big Brother is no longer a pervasive presence. People are free to wear what they want, work where they want, live where they want, travel where they want. They enjoy vastly greater access to information of all sorts. They can choose whom to marry and when to divorce--though a couple may still have only one child. They may air their views, gripe and disagree with one another or the authorities--as long as they...
...while the Chinese now want to concentrate on private concerns, they want to do so amid political stability and public order. That allows the regime to maintain a degree of authoritarianism quite abhorrent to Westerners. Jiang and his cohort can probably maintain Deng's dual system of economic progress and political rigidity as long as people's material expectations are being...
...that promises continued tensions between Beijing and Washington. Even with Deng, says a senior State Department official, "it was a difficult relationship to manage. The prickliness on the Chinese side won't change." U.S. analysts think Jiang is unlikely to advance into greater intimacy with the U.S., yet economic progress depends on keeping the relationship active and friendly...
...Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations of further progress in the near term. We expect Mexico to work with us" particularly in "attacking corruption." Albright complained that "corruption is deeply rooted in Mexican counterdrug institutions. Six Mexican attorney generals and five drug czars have come and gone in the last five years, without making major headway against drug barons...
...Oscar Malherbe de Leon, head of a major smuggling operation, and destroying a ton of cocaine seized by the Mexican navy on the Yucatan resort island of Cozumel. In announcing the recertification, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned today that the decision was made "with firm expectations of further progress in the near term. We expect Mexico to work with us" particularly in "attacking corruption." Albright complained that "corruption is deeply rooted in Mexican counterdrug institutions. Six Mexican attorney generals and five drug czars have come and gone in the last five years, without making major headway against drug barons...