Word: progressism
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...when the panelists began discussing modern women’s movements, Ginsburg acknowledged that progress now requires more than just legal action...
Manufacturers can't count on a swift rebound once a recovery is in progress. Americans are starting to save more, and they may not return to their free-spending ways for years. "There is good reason to believe the capitulation of the American consumer has only just begun," said economist Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Ajay Chhibber, director of the Asia bureau at the United Nations Development Program in New York City, says the tigers can't expect to weather this recession by temporarily increasing government spending to boost growth until Western export markets recover. "The model where...
...suspects, one just 17 years old, have been arrested in connection with Carroll's murder, and investigators say they are making progress in tracking down the killers of Sappers Quinsey and Azimkar. But the toughest detective work may lie in determining why violence has flared again...
There is a pervading sense that Kenya's leaders have failed to make any progress at all since the Grand Coalition was formed with the hopes of reviving the country after postelection violence in early 2008 killed 1,200 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. In July, Kithure Kindiki, the man appointed to oversee efforts at national ethnic healing, resigned his post because he said the government was not financing his efforts. Now many people fear the coalition will collapse, and the militias responsible for much of the postelection killing are said to be rearming. And just a year after...
...First, that scandal, which could yet derail his progress. On March 3, Ozawa's chief secretary, Takanori Okubo, was arrested by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's office on charges of taking, and falsely reporting, illegal political donations from dummy corporations linked to the company Nishimatsu Construction. The donations are alleged to have been funneled through Ozawa's political fund. In a March 7 interview with TIME, Ozawa said that he was "very surprised" by the arrest, and that the case involved merely "errors in the statement of political fundraising records" of the sort that in the past required only...