Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Most troubling is that in light of the Court's ruling, the handling of the Microsoft case will inevitably have to be passed on to a new administration--a fact that may jeopardize the progress made in the case thus far. Under new leadership, the Justice Department could potentially sacrifice the government's strategic bargaining advantage in the name of a swifter, if more lenient, settlement with Microsoft, or even go so far as to drop out of the case entirely. Although the states that are parties to the suit would likely continue to fight, such actions would greatly reduce...
...into new deals. Reports from the West Bank and Gaza suggest that efforts may already be underway to implement the cease-fire terms, although new clashes were reported in Gaza. But the breakdown in summitry is an indicator of the extent to which the recent violence may have reversed progress towards a final-status peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians...
...Until our body politic rids itself of this corporate cancer, the one-quarter of one percent of the electorate that supplies half of all campaign contributions will continue to place limits on our social progress. It's time we place limits on them...
...Last spring, Cambridge and Harvard officials traded public barbs, each side blaming the other for impeding progress and being unresponsive...
...computer has passed an open-ended free-topic Turing test, but I say that we are being too harsh. Just as children progress through the various stages of pre-consciousness to full self-awareness in their toddlerhood, so too computers must slowly approach their sentience. Thus I propose an adjunct to the Turing Test, something that I will immodestly christen the "Greenleaf Test." If a computer can generate sentences that are indistinguishable from political campaign rhetoric, it has passed the Greenleaf test. In other words, if a computer can eventually be indistinguishable from presidential candidates, it has taken its first...