Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, its role as a great power had paradoxically placed the country in the position of opposing its own historic origins and libertarian roots. In addition, the impressive progress of its economy had led to the creation of formidable nuclei of economic power, not subject to the constitutional controls imposed by the system on the civil Government, that endanger the workings of democracy at its very foundations...
...policy. That is one of the fundamental virtues of the American people, and this is a decisive moment for all men everywhere who hope that the vigor of the U.S. will be directed, as it was at its birth, not to the frustration but to the encouragement of historical progress...
Overall, his impact at the Law School and on black education in general may be measured "mainly in terms of intangibles," a member of the Law School faculty said yesterday. "The morale of the whole school was deeply affected by his manner and his progress...
Starting in about 1948 that began to change. The progress took place mainly through the efforts of Southern blacks allied with Northern liberals and labor unions. The story gets complicated here, Bass and DeVries say, because the pressure exerted on behalf of racial equality changed major and minor features of politics very quickly. First, the Southern racists were read out of the National Democratic party at Truman's convention, and formed their own National States Rights Party. The civil rights movement won crucial successes after that, chief among them the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which insured...
Development officials added that the rise in gifts indicates that mini-fund raising drives in progress for a new sports complex, the Kennedy School of Government and the Center for Jewish Studies...