Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what are expected to be heated, partisan sessions. In particular, some Senators will try to probe Souter's views on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion. Pro-choice and some women's groups have been mobilizing against Souter, but they are unlikely to impede his progress -- unless he makes a major gaffe. "Souter is far too good a technical lawyer to get himself into trouble," says American University law professor Herman Schwartz. "He will do what & Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Antonin Scalia did -- dance around the issues...
Over the summer, progress was made on the exterior of the addition. It features pyramid-like skylights, porcelain tiles and limestone from Indiana...
Over the summer, progress was made on the exterior of the addition. It features pyramid-like skylights, porcelain tiles and limestone from Indiana...
Several protesters--including many members of the school's Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR), which sponsored Friday's vigil--said the event was intended to tell the school's faculty that activism would continue until more progress was made in diversifying the faculty...
...assault from the right has expanded to target all sorts of dissident material touching on politics, religion and power relationships between the genders. Conservatives reject the argument that artists deserve aid because cutting-edge ideas lead to progress. Instead, the right has advanced the know- nothing notion that artists tend to be leftist, godless and sexually perverse and that public funding amounts to promoting an "antifamily agenda...