Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really, signed an operating agreement with the bank. For the playing field to be absolutely level, I thought it was important for me to be off the board. I didn't want the regulators to feel my presence on the board would have any kind of impact on their progress going forward...
Amid such crosscurrents, many economists hope that the White House and Congress will make substantial progress in their talks on shrinking the budget deficit. While the proposed $50 billion reduction could dampen the economy in the short run, many experts argue that a smaller deficit would reduce the danger of rising inflation and encourage the Federal Reserve to let interest rates fall. "I would have preferred to see the deficit attacked earlier, when + the economy was stronger," says Lyle Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association and a former Federal Reserve governor. "But we ought to take the risk...
Still, whatever progress is made during the next few years in fighting skin cancer, the best therapy will remain prevention, especially in childhood and the teens, when most of the damage is done. To Americans long indoctrinated with the notion that a tan look is a healthy look, this means that instead of worshiping the sun, they had better begin respecting...
...reasonable premise that universities play a central role in the social and economic advancement of a nation, Bok sets out to examine a simple question: If the system of higher education in this country is truly the finest in the world, he asks, then why has so little progress been made to solve the country's ills? On issues from industrial competitiveness to the drug epidemic to the ethical lapses of public officials, teachers and researchers could and should be doing more, Bok argues...
...illustrious list of speakers included Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement, Culture Minister Jack Lang and National Assembly President Laurent Fabius. But the French public seemed more than a little blase: only about 30 people showed up last week for a political colloquium on the theme of progress. Toward the end of the second day, however, the room was unaccountably filled with spectators, and the applauding throng seemed to have saved the ruling Socialists from a public relations disaster. But relief turned to embarrassment when it was learned that more than 100 members of the crowd had been paid $63 each...