Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this Westin Hotel Convention Center, just east of San Jose, Calif., a revival meeting is in progress. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, 50, struts across the stage wearing a gray tweed suit and preaching the gospel of the network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...
That's not to say there aren't serious issues blocking progress: "The Syrians accepted a resumption of talks without their basic demand of an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders being guaranteed," says MacLeod. "But they made it clear that this demand had to receive priority in the talks. If Israel is reluctant to give that guarantee at the outset - which it plainly has been - the Syrians may be trying to underline the seriousness of their demands...
...Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red" was painted after the artist's invention of a style he dubbed neo-plasticism, which he wrote about extensively in the Dutch journal De Stijl (The Style). The magazine called for the unification of the arts behind spiritual progress and social change...
...according to Rudenstine, knowing where to draw the line is still hard. And so he says an integrated, University-wide approach is being taken to determine the rate at which Harvard should progress--and where it should stop...
Despite six turnovers, freshman guard Elliot Prasse-Freeman showed progress in several facets of his game on Wednesday night. In addition to dishing out 9 assists and scoring 7 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the foul line, Prasse-Freeman was also a catalyst on the defensive side of the ball, collecting seven defensive rebounds, two steals, and a block...