Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just around the corner from Boston's first graveyard is Boston's first public school--the site of the original Boston Latin School. "We believe that reason and work are the paths to progress," Ben Franklin tells generations of Bostonians in a mosaic commemorating the Latin School...
What we saw next was progress--at least its annoying side. Between each beacon of the 18th century were scattered too many reminders of the 20th--little wooden carts that served as functional boutiques and cluttered the sidewalks with their yuppie ware. And then on to Quincy Market, a crass commercial excuse for stealing the dollars of more than 15 million tourists every year. History, if there is any there, is confined to a statue, a plaque and perhaps Durgin Park restaurant...
...starting to put things together," Harvard Coach Wayne Lem said. "We don't have any excuses. This is a rebuilding year for us. As long as we're making progress, I'm happy...
...wouldn't be easier to move step by step, first coping with one problem and then another. "Radical change," he said, is needed "in the party, in the state, in agriculture, in industry, in personnel policy and most of all in people's mentality." In assessing the actual progress of reform, Gorbachev can be brutally realistic. At a meeting with Soviet media leaders the previous week, he reported bleakly, "At the moment, we are going slowly, we are losing time. And that means we are losing...
Leonid Abalkin, director of the economic institute of Moscow's Academy of Sciences, blames bureaucratic mistakes, a drop in energy prices and even high clean-up costs after the Chernobyl nuclear accident for the lack of progress. But he also points a finger at the "inconsistency, indecisiveness and halfway measures" that pervade the reform program, largely as a result of compromises with conservative foot-draggers...