Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the local government had been dormant since the 1933 election, leaving the hamlet with no police or fire protection and no water or sewer lines. But after discovering that Keysville was still a legally incorporated entity, retired schoolteacher Emma Gresham, 64, decided to run for mayor to bring progress to the sleepy Georgia town. Local whites, fearing that black control might result in higher taxes, went to court to block the election, but Gresham prevailed. Now in her second one-year term, Gresham has embarked on such civic projects as installing streetlights and a beautification campaign...
Hochschild describes what she calls a stalled revolution, with both men and women following "gender strategies" that prevent progress. Traditional men, those who believe that women should tend children and kitchen even when the family money squeeze forces them to take jobs, actually do more chores in the home than the "transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household...
NATION: A sweeping study finds that black progress toward equality has come to a halt...
...status of black Americans today can be characterized as a glass that is half full -- if measured by progress since 1939 -- or as a glass that is half empty -- if measured by the persisting disparities between black and white Americans since the early 1970s...
Western conference sources said that while it may be impossible to reconcile the Cambodian parties in Paris, progress could be achieved on forming an international body to monitor the Vietnamese pullout...