Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days later, negotiators in Tokyo announced agreement on the awkwardly named Structural Impediments Initiative, which commits Japan to boost spending while the U.S. cuts debt. The agreement will permit Bush and Kaifu to enter next week's seven-nation economic summit in Houston having made progress not just on specific trade issues but also on ways to improve the basic economies of the two countries...
Brian Mulroney has been a leader in redefining international politics. He was instrumental in bringing about the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and progress toward reducing the cross-border curse of acid rain. So far, however, his luck and skill have failed him at home. History and domestic politics seem to be conspiring against him. Quebec today is a would-be nation-state chafing against the vestiges of empire...
...something like the affiliated sovereignties of the E.C. turn out to be Canada's future design, the relationship will not be simple. Europe's growing pains show just how complicated a revised political blueprint can be. But the Community's progress does suggest that some flexibility with the traditional concept of the nation-state may be a rewarding course for industrialized countries in the future. So when the baseball season is over, thoughtful Canadians may again be ready to turn from competition to cooperation...
MAURICE PRENDERGAST, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Prendergast evolved from a sign painter to one of the pathfinders of post- impressionism in the U.S. This retrospective traces the full arc of his progress. Through Sept...
...speech for the conservative Helms (who frequently snaps at Bush's right ankle), the President warned that "the liberal Democrats want us to make reckless defense cuts." On their pet domestic programs, however, the same liberals "measure progress by dollars spent...