Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Delays, Progress...
Most convention delegates seem to agree that the progress made in the past few meetings indicates that the ideological divisions among members of the convention have faded, if not vanished entirely. The more pessimistic delegates see this progress as merely temporary, but the more hopeful assert that the convention's consensus will hold up during the next few meetings. Despite the different forecasts by convention members about the chances of success, almost all delegates seem to agree on what the crucial issues...
...pose. These delegations warned of the potential danger of linking the new government to the administration or the student-Faculty committees. These students advocated ideas such as student plebiscites on issues, and a town-meeting type of student government. As time passed and the philosophical battles began to hinder progress, students abandoned the more innovative proposals and the members who were dedicated to the notion that anything was better than the status-quo emerged victorious...
...HEREIN LIES the rub: Brodeur shows us that much of modern microwave research and innovation has been intended for military electronic warfare, or for surveillance; and further, that the hazards of microwave radiation have been ignored and neglected in favor of progress and technological expediency...
...elections, the country would not have had a working government for about six months. Reason: a census would be required first, in order to register newcomers to the electoral rolls, notably refugees from Portugal's former African territories. Furthermore, the government crisis had halted crucial negotiations in progress with the International Monetary Fund, which has demanded an austerity program to check inflation and reduce trade deficits as a condition for $750 million in emergency loans to Portugal. Said Freitas do Amaral: "By the middle of '78 we would have been on the brink of bankruptcy with our national...