Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON -- Hours after President Reagan confirmed months of secret dealings with Iran, his national security adviser said yesterday the dialogue would continue in the hope that "we can make further progress and get the rest of the hostages home...
...Since then," Reagan said in his hastily arranged 12-minute speech, "the dialogue has continued, and step-by-step progress continues to be made...
Grayson said the attitudes were reflected in the baseball teams that fought the World Series. "The Red Sox were historically slower in making a number of steps toward [racial] progress, much slower than the Mets," he said...
Singh is openly proud of his heritage and his country. "I don't see any other country in the world which has made so much progress in such a short time of its history," he says. "Although India's per capita income is very low, India has taken great strides in industrialization and modernization in the last 35 years...
Most prominent among the Jesuits is Father Gabriel, a sort of premature liberation theologian, portrayed with unpersuasive piety by Jeremy Irons. Most interesting among them is Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert De Niro), whose spiritual progress gives the movie such modest narrative force and particularized human interest as it has. Discovered doing a little free-lance slaving, Mendoza soon kills his brother in a quarrel, succumbs to righteous guilt and then struggles to atone. To abase himself while scaling the side of the falls as the good father's newest acolyte, Mendoza insists on toting a heavyweight bag of arms, armor...