Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1890s and by the engineers of a technology whose emblematic climax was John and Washington Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge, were among the prototypes of European avant-garde thinking before and after World War I. Even to the Russian constructivists, "Americanism" was something infinitely desirable: it stood for electricity, progress, a society knit together and made transparent by fast communication...
After a decade of progress, minority law professors are finding that the environment at the nation's law schools is becoming an increasingly hostile...
...IDEA, Harvard's Core curriculum is a fine thing. It represents progress in the field of education, an eloquent response to Henry Adams, who believed that his Harvard education did not begin to prepare him for his later life...
...Administration's credibility and competence. It is too early to say that his Presidency has been crippled, though that could happen if the dismaying pattern of new revelations and unconvincing explanations continues much longer. But it seems almost certain that whatever comes of the many investigations now in progress, Reagan will emerge as a diminished President, his aura of invincibility shattered, his fabled luck vanished, his every policy regarded with new suspicion...
...insurgents insisted on the right to collect "progressive taxes" in rebel-controlled areas and to seize weapons from government depots and other sources while the peace talks are in progress. The armed forces understandably found both provisions unacceptable. In a carefully worded compromise, the two sides agreed that these practices would not be designated as "hostile acts," but at the same time the armed forces reserved the right to take action against them...