Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's Core is still shy of the committee's goal of a minimum of six courses per term in each area. But Verba said he was "very pleased" with progress...
...plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than 12 in. in some places--which caused flooding in North...
...sudden change threw evacuation plans into chaos. Most people waited until morning to evacuate, and did so in a vast crush of cars. Road construction further slowed progress. By morning the scene along Interstate 10 outside Pensacola was like something from a grade-B disaster film. Jarrell estimates 10,000 people were stranded on the highways, listening to ever more urgent broadcasts on their radios. Some drivers abandoned their cars and fled for high ground...
...Despite the news, the Nikkei index slipped only slightly Wednesday because the Japanese Diet looked to be making some progress -- albeit slow and circuitous -- toward a critical compromise on banking reform. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party favors maintaining a fairly generous state-sponsored bank rescue plan, while opposition parties (and the West) want to let weak banks and the enterprises they support perish. Somewhere in the middle may be a viable bill, and the latest round of failures may be enough to spur even the often listless LDP to get economic reform out of the hemming-and-hawing phase...
...note. He made sure to pass a couple of solidly popular domestic measures with bipartisan support. For Clinton, that could be rewriting the managed-care files and saving Social Security from bankruptcy. Overseas he needs one clear win. Reagan had a Soviet arms-control deal; Clinton could try for progress in the Middle East peace talks...