Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...democracy is not characterized by its forward-thinking policy, its welfare rights or its ability to speak for the people. Popular government is marked by struggle, bureaucracy, checks-and-balances and endless debate, all of which threaten to engulf the isolated fictions of real community progress...
Much has been made in this year's presidential campaign about fighting for "the people." Texas Gov. George W. Bush says he will leave no child behind and will end what he has termed the education recession in the midst of economic progress. Vice President (and newly anointed frontrunner) Al Gore '69 has laid his claim to represent "the people, not the powerful." And, ever-fading into the obscurity of low polling percentages, presidential hopefuls Patrick J. Buchanan and Ralph Nader claim that only their stands can represent Americans in the face of the Republicrat system...
...says the MWRA has also made a broad commitment in the last decade to keeping the public informed about the progress of the cleanup efforts...
...moaned Bush, if only the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, "the kind of leaders I would work with as president," were still in charge of the other party. "Vice President Gore has cast his lot with the old Democratic party," he said. "Just when progress on important issues seems within reach, my opponent has left the vital center of American politics...
After some tense exchanges, however, the two sides did appear to make progress in creating an open dialogue...