Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PBHA has suggested that the organization stop teaching people to swim. They have simply suggested that the organization stand up for a better society. The issues it confronts are too important to too many disadvantaged people to do otherwise. Long-term social progress requires politics...
...prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that...
Similarly, the U.S. needs to revamp its technical assistance to poorer nations. In the past, development agencies have tended to promote pell-mell progress, leading many nations to conclude that environmental destruction is an integral part of economic advance. Senator Albert Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, advocates that assistance be refocused on "leapfrogging" technologies, like low-emission power plants, so that nations may better the lives of their people without repeating the mistakes of the industrial world. But to develop better technologies, says Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the U.S. will have to bolster its faltering science education...
...follow-up to our Jan. 2, 1989, Planet of the Year issue, TIME invited 14 environment experts and policymakers to Alexandria, Va., for a one-day conference. Its aim was twofold: to take stock of the environmental progress that had been made around the world during the year, and to develop an agenda for the future. This special report sums up our conclusions -- and some proposals for action...
That is not to say that there are no qualified women and minority scholars out there already. As Harrison notes, "Considerable progress can be made by simply reaching [minorities and women] and getting applications from them." Department officials can be encouraged to make a greater effort to recruit those scholars...