Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With TIME's deadline approaching, Holmes and his fellow art directors grew a little nervous. Normally they watch the work in progress. "In this case," recalls Holmes, "we couldn't say, 'Hey, please send over your concrete wall, so that we can have a look at the mural.' We were going on faith...
...marks. That still leaves it 48% below its peak 3 1/2 years ago. So far, the U.S. has made no significant effort to halt the rise. But while the slightly stronger dollar has some benefits, like reducing inflation, a prolonged upward trend could eventually reverse America's trade progress and drag down economic growth. Declares Daniel Laufenberg, senior economist for IDS, a financial-services firm: "A stronger dollar endangers American competitiveness and jobs. In the long term, the dollar has to go down...
...Pretoria from talks in Cairo, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was in high good humor. Jauntily donning a red fez, Botha told reporters that with the aid of Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, negotiators from South Africa, Angola and Cuba had made progress on future discussions concerning the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola. But the euphoria dissolved the following day, when new fighting broke out. Pretoria said that twelve of its soldiers and 300 Angolans and Cubans were killed when a government force attacked a South African garrison. Officials...
...that the Brawley case should run in historical parallel to the political progress of Jesse Jackson. Any American with a memory watched in astonishment this spring as thousands of white Americans, blue-collar workers among them, an old reliable class of Wallaceites, took Jackson as their leader. Is there some buried law of collective psychological compensation requiring that each burst of light must be answered by a burst of darkness? That the Jackson victories must have the balancing underhorror of the Brawley rape...
Gorbachev has already made startling progress by putting most of the country's industry on a self-financing system and encouraging private initiative in cooperative and individual enterprises. But the reform process has run up against bureaucratic resistance and opposition from traditional Communists, who see the profit motive as sinful backsliding into the evils of capitalism. A firm endorsement by the party conference will help break the bureaucratic backlog as well as reassure those who take their Marxism-Leninism too seriously...