Word: progressive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...challenges may be slightly different in Latin America from those faced in Europe. The main challenge facing the progressive governments of this region is not right-wing laissez faire capitalism, but the more populist socialism epitomized by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. "Sometimes the adversary of progressive ideas can be populist ideas," said Rudy deLeon from the Center for American Progress in Washington, perhaps with Chavez in mind. "And in a time of economic challenge that can be an issue...
...shake them off, but many don't. The signs of a serious hit are a headache that gets worse, confusion, disorientation and vomiting. Slurred speech, sleepiness, a droopy eye and clumsiness are also signals, as is any kind of amnesia. And the signs may not be obvious. "They gradually progress," says Dr. Carmelo Graffagnino, director of the neuroscience critical-care unit at Duke University. "Then suddenly it gets to the critical point that a person can't be woken...
...carry. I grab a foam-core-mounted map of Montana, and on the way to the new digs, Tester takes me down to the basement, where he worked in windowless offices for his first three months, holding staff meetings in the cafeteria, waiting for the office-shifting process to progress through the Senate. Mark Udall is now in Tester's old space, waiting. "It's just survival," says Udall's communications director, Tara Trujillo. "We've seen mice. The cockroaches do not survive here." Tester laughs the deep laugh of a guy who no longer has to work near dead...
Every now and then, the drastic end of flush economic times happens to coincide with the natural end of a conservative political era. Such was the case in the 1930s - coming after three straight conservative presidencies, a period of whizbang technological progress (electrification, radio, aviation) and a culture of bon temps rouler - and such is the case...
...There has been some progress, including the release of some political prisoners," says Karbalevich. "But it's a game for Lukashenka. He doesn't intend to make any fundamental changes, just enough to satisfy European politicians...