Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side-of-the-mouth brusqueness he adopts when feeling besieged. Never mind. Sooner or later, usually sooner, he will relent. Prod him with questions. Why has he been critical of those huge screens towering behind outfield fences in so many parks that now sometimes compete with the game in progress? "Look," he will answer in spite of himself, "I'm not some kind of Luddite, baying at change." And then he is off and running. "The screen is the most visible symbol of our high-tech age, and here it is, plunked down in this ancient coliseum. It's only...
...some economists were murmuring their doubts even as they welcomed the improvement. From January through July, the trade gap was running at an annual average of $137 billion, down from $170.3 billion last year. By historical standards the deficit remains enormous, and further progress may become increasingly difficult. A prime reason is that America's factories, which went through a long period of downsizing for efficiency's sake, no longer produce the diversity or volume of products needed to meet the heavy demands of a healthy U.S. economy...
Electrical power and telephone service were wiped out as eight years of hard-won economic progress was smashed like a stomped melon. After surveying the day-after damage, Seaga declared that the impoverished island's economic expansion, percolating at 5% last year, had been set back a decade. That estimate may have been unduly pessimistic, but not by much. Most visibly, the glossy hotels and clubs that pull in the island's tourist trade were left a shambles, especially in the popular north-coast resort areas of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. The banana crop, which was expected to produce...
...were running for President (or even dogcatcher), I would have just lost the election. The denial of "eternal progress" and "Fortress America" is that shocking to our psyches...
Probably it is too simple of human beings to want to look in on their own progress quadrennially, hoping to gauge how far they have gone by how fast they can go, as if the breed could hope to improve on Emil Zatopek. He was the beau ideal in 1952, a balding Czech about the size of a parking meter, who ran all day and all night with his shirt peeled up and his tongue rolled down. When Zatopek raced, hearts raced. Whoever his modern descendant might be -- the Moroccan Said Aouita, likely as not -- he will almost certainly...