Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really thought our country had made more progress than that...
...save the beleaguered Budget Director. Now, with October's brisk breezes and brilliant hues, the man in the Oval Office seemed to emerge reinvigorated. Suddenly, Jimmy Carter was in motion again-launching initiatives, planning journeys, defending his programs, attacking their detractors. But motion does not always equal progress, and the President's whirling-dervish routine almost inevitably led to a number of stumbles, if not pratfalls...
...read it. Startling delegates by greeting them in Serbian and frequently ad-libbing (his address ran twelve minutes longer than the prescribed 30 minutes), Goldberg read off a list of human rights violations but named no names or countries. He noted that there had been "encouraging evidence of progress" since Helsinki, but concluded that "the progress displayed is not progress enough...
...Crimson, a victory would mean a lot of red faces for those who watched the Colgate game and called it a season. The offense has shown progress since then, the defense--assuming the opposition has less than an excellent passing game, and Dartmouth does--is good, and it's the fifth week of the season, the time when Harvard always seems to find itself...
...rights groups have stressed the crucial symbolic impact of the ruling, predicting that, subtleties aside, ruling against U.C. Davis would be seen as a ruling against affirmative action, and that it could mark the first victory in a campaign to turn back the tide of affirmative action and the progress of civil rights programs and legislation by those who now think minorities have gained too much, too fast in the past decade...