Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restaurant in the Broadway department store in Glendale, Calif. "I've been to Spain," Johnston confides, "and this is a bit of nostalgia." For Don Kenway, the store's vice president for food services, offering tapas in a department-store setting is a gamble. He is pleased with the progress the small cafe has made since it opened in December. "It's an educational process," he says. "Some people confuse Spanish food with Mexican and think that it is hotly spiced. But as customers begin to understand tapas, they give them a better reception...
China's Communist Party turned 65 last week, but it was not an altogether happy birthday. The celebration came in the midst of a heated debate among party factions over the progress of the reforms launched under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 81, to introduce free enterprise into his nation's economy. In the Chinese press, the openness and variety of criticisms leveled at the party over the past two months have been breathtaking. "The only area that is effectively barred from discussion," said one Western diplomat, "is the party's right to rule...
Gorbachev has attended only one other East bloc party congress this year, in East Berlin, and his presence in Warsaw clearly demonstrated Moscow's satisfaction with Jaruzelski's progress since he became First Secretary in 1981. The Soviet leader expansively praised Jaruzelski and lauded Warsaw's success in "repulsing the onslaught of the enemies of socialism...
During the late 19th century, Henry Adams despaired of the quality of American leadership. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," he wrote, "was alone evidence to disprove Darwin." What would Adams have had to say about evolution in the office from Thomas Jefferson, say, to Ronald Reagan...
Women, according to the report, have made substantial progress at the University. Aside from the area of skilled craftsmen, the report indicates a steady rise in the percentage of women in all areas of University life...