Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the new budget request is a refreshing change from the Administration's past policy, the motives are suspect. This is a crucial time in the nation's future, when education is critical for restoring America's economic health. And with progress on civil rights and fighting poverty stalled, the federal government must provide aid for all low-income and minority students to ensure them equal access to college and jobs. With so much at stake, a college education should not have to rely on the political calculations of presidential candidates...
...Harvard Unemployment Law Project, which isalready in progress, trains student volunteers tospeak for people who feel they were firedunjustly. The students enter the process whenpeople appeal the results of administrativehearings conducted by Massachusetts Division ofEmployment Security, Mani said. "This program maypit an undergraduate student against ahigh-powered corporate attorney...
...would agree to make territorial concessions in the Arab regions it has occupied since 1967 in return for the establishment of peaceful relations with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as well as with neighboring Jordan. Shultz regards such a trade-off as absolutely essential to any progress in the Middle East conflict. But the Israeli leadership is bitterly divided over the issue. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who is head of the Labor Party, is amenable to the principle. But Peres' partner in Israel's national unity government, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, is opposed to any territorial concessions...
...township homeowners and developers, totaling some $30 million a month, has helped catapult large numbers of blacks from low-income to middle-income and even luxury housing. A Cape Town conference attended by government officials and political leaders two weeks ago held out the promise of even greater progress, as successive speakers called for economic reforms aimed at giving blacks a bigger share of the country's wealth...
Sakharov said the Soviet Union has not yet made enough progress to merit holding an international human rights conference...