Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects of "progress" were often disastrous. Hundreds of thousands of peasants fled their native villages for the lure of more profitable work in the cities, leaving formerly cultivated farm land to revert to desert. At the same time, Iran, which for ages had been all but self-sufficient, suddenly had to import more than 60% of its food products. Along with imports of food came more than 1 million foreign workers: Pakistani and Filipino truck drivers, Indian engineers, Korean and Japanese workers - to say nothing of the more than 40,000 American military and civilian personnel whose advice and training...
...begun to comprehend the real nature of Iran's malaise and his role in its creation (see Interview page 43). In other societies run by strong rulers - Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, Leopold Senghor's Senegal, Tito's Yugoslavia - literate and cultivated populations have succeeded in matching political progress with economic and cultural development. But Iran's unique society, so influenced by its religious structure and rooted for centuries in a different world, simply could not adjust to such radical change. The Shah failed to realize that the dramatic alterations he envisioned for the economic advance of his nation required...
...resurgence of politically active Islamic conservatism throughout the Muslim world, and whether because of his forced-march modernization policies, he has been caught on the cutting edge of the resistance. Yes, and I don't mind that. I personally believe that Islam is not opposed to progress. In a normal atmosphere, faith is needed by a society and adds to its stability and its strength. I'm talking about Islam-and not political slogans...
...many citizens in the West have begun to detect what might be called the Fallacy of Progress. For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps...
Many businessmen and economists believe that any guidelines program would deal only with the symptoms of inflation and not its root causes, notably bulging deficits and a too-rapid expansion of the U.S. money supply. But the Federal Reserve lately has been making progress in reducing money growth toward Miller's goal of an annual rate no higher than 6.5%, and Stage Two will include a new round of budget cutting. The Senate Budget Committee last week voted to set a $42.3 billion ceiling on the federal deficit for fiscal 1979, which starts Oct. 1. That would be well...