Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Donald Trump. Trump, who in 1980 pulled down and smashed a set of art deco bas reliefs from an old Fifth Avenue building ("They were stones with some engravings on them"), says today that "a lot of times preservation is used as an excuse to stop progress" and "as a method of stopping anybody from progressing a city." Trump's current idea of "progressing a city" is to put up a set of nine gigantic high-rise towers, among them the tallest building in the world, on Manhattan's old Upper West Side...
...questions of propriety that AIDS inevitably raises should be addressed. But regardless of the appropriateness of the sexual practices that account for much of the disease's spread, people are going to engage in them. And the disease will progress. So it ultimately remains necessary for Dr. Ruth's "sexual showercaps" to be promoted on TV, in the press and perhaps even by the Undergraduate Council. Despite the opinions of some Council members, condom dispensers in nooks and cranies around the houses are likely to offend only the timid and the hyper-moralistic. And the price of accomodating either group...
...recent Communist Party Congress, the Chinese government renewed its commitment to liberalization and reform Nonetheless, China is still caught in that murky zone between the stagnation of its communist-planned past and progress toward a more liberalized future...
...great deal of progress has been made over the past three days," an American source said. He described the talks as "very good and positive...
...into the economy and easing interest rates, the U. S. allows the dollar to plummet against other major currencies. Although most economists agree the dollar' s fall is inevitable, it is a dangerous move that will carry a new set of economic risks. Meanwhile, the U. S. is making progress toward cutting its budget deficit and encouraging global economic coordination...