Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festival not only inspired student organizations to get their act together, it also put the Harvard Foundation's money where its mouth is. The foundation is the administration's alternative to a Third World students' center and has been recently criticized for not initiating substantial progress in this direction...
...excitement lies, is the unexpected--the earthquake, the coup, the riot, the crash, the death of some prominent person. The second is the known event heading toward resolution--the forthcoming election, the fate of a bill in the legislature, the possibility of a veto--on which the paper provides progress reports...
...issue of how soon the deficit must be cut substantially. "This is the make-or-break year for the deficit," contended Rivlin. "There is a general perception that there is a breakdown in our system and we can't solve this problem." Feldstein, however, thinks that considerable progress has already been made. Said he: "If the deficit problem drags on for another year, it's not the end of the earth...
...writer's cramp. He bought a typewriter, and, of course, needed a servant to operate the thing. So now James was more and more confined to his home in Sussex, pacing the room, dictating to the typist and the clacking machine. James became a prisoner of progress...
Thirteen years ago, Chile, under the leadership of President Salvador Allende, was one of the few Latin American countries with a democratic government. A generation of popular leadership had made significant progress in social and economic reform, putting in place the rudiments of a welfare state. As one prominent journalist told me, "We had a tradition of democracy that made men proud. The Moneda [Presidential Palace] was a public way, and the president walked down the street like you or me, and took off his hat to say 'Hello...