Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces of all who marched down the streets of Washington reflected this spirit of unity. Blended in the myriad of Latin American flags were American flags, indicating our willingness to participate in the American culture while contributing our heritage. The march was a connecting force binding history and progress in one. Millions of people watched at home, knowing their voices were the chanting of the marchers, their passions were embodied in the converged masses and their hopes, our parents' hopes, were reignited by the visions of their children, America's children. We marched in support of each other...
Today the bureaucracies that used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast...
...give him a chance for four years. In July I told him, "I'm telling the people to give you a chance. Please do something. It is very important for the public opinion not only in Egypt but in the whole Arab world." Then came August, September, October. No progress. What can I tell public opinion? "Give him a chance"? Till when...
This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years: one starts out loving an idealized image of a mate (see Vertigo) and winds up loving oneself (see Seinfeld...
...Europeans' faults, including plunder and slavery, by a moral criterion developed in the West--the sanctity of human life and evinced by their practice of slavery, intertribal warfare, and even human sacrifice. It is Western civilization--specifically, its values of reason, individualism, and freedom--which has made the greatest progress in history in eradicating such horrors from the face of the earth. Ear from smearing the man who introduced such a life-giving culture to this hemisphere with fatuous invocations of Hitler and Stalin. We should hail Columbus as one of history's greatest benefactors. --Barry D. Wood, Member, Harvard...