Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side, the heads of civil rights organizations -- and most African Americans -- insist that racial discrimination is so entrenched at all levels of U.S. society that only affirmative action can overcome it. They charge that Steele and other critics greatly understate white resistance to black progress. To support their view, they note that self-reliance has long been a part of the black gospel for advancement. "There's nothing new in the statement that we can and should do more for ourselves," says John Jacob, president of the National Urban League. "It's not a debatable issue." But, say supporters...
Still, that breakthrough was an enormous letdown from the high hopes generated during the gulf war. Then, the conventional wisdom held that new alliances and new thinking might create an environment for making progress in settling the Arab-Israeli conflict. But as Baker's frustrations illustrate, no outside power can impose a solution; the bickering factions must want peace themselves. And the evident truth is that they don't, or at least not badly enough. "The only party willing to move is the Palestinians," says a senior Western diplomat in Washington, exaggerating only slightly. "And no one," he adds, "gives...
...Saddam's tenacious hold on power, the Bush Administration dearly needs a diplomatic victory. Certainly Baker does not appear to be preparing to quit anytime soon. On his way home last week, he stressed the positive accomplishments of his mission and said little to dampen expectations for more progress...
...allowing the weapons to be carried only on genuinely ceremonial occasions. Rather than let yet another deadline -- the third it has set in the past three weeks -- slide by, the A.N.C announced on Saturday that it would suspend talks with De Klerk on a new constitution until he made "progress" in meeting its demands. The A.N.C. will probably also boycott an all-party peace conference called by the government for this week, but De Klerk insisted he would go ahead regardless...
Several college attorneys say the consent agreement may take some steam out of a private suit filed by a Wesleyan graduate on behalf of about 100,000 students. The suit is slowly making progress in New York where a federal judge is expected to rule on class certification within the next two months...