Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vogel described the meeting as a significant step in improving Sino-American relations, rather than a harbinger of progress for intellectual freedom in China, since the Chinese have far more academic autonomy than Americans realize...
...WONDER YEARS For 27 years, researchers at the University of North Carolina followed the progress of children enrolled in quality child-care programs. Last week they revealed that those who attended such programs soon after birth through kindergarten maintained the positive effects of the education into adulthood, doing better on reading and math tests than those who didn't receive such an education...
...approach that I'm recommending is a series of changes that build on the progress we've made. It's unacceptable for 44 million Americans not to have health insurance, but it is also unacceptable to severely damage the health care being provided to 84% of the people. What I propose is to start by ensuring every child in America would have health insurance by the end of the next President's term...
...from around the country. The Rev. Mel White, a longtime friend of Falwell's who broke with the religious right when he came out of the closet in 1993, pressed for the personal meeting as a chance to break down barriers of misunderstanding and stereotypes. Falwell exulted at the progress: "Four hundred people who disagree met for 90 minutes without any shouting," he told the group, according to several publications. "The building didn't collapse. They discovered it was okay and even legal to meet and meet again...
...progress, certainly, but it would still be a stretch to call the founder of the Moral Majority a friend of the gay community. Falwell made it clear that he still opposes homosexuality, and over the years he has devoted far more energy to saving gays from their supposed sin than to saving them from physical assaults. A typical sampling of Falwell's rhetoric is the July edition of his National Liberty Journal, in which he wrote that we cannot "blame" genetics for "adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws." Most famously, Falwell urged parents to avoid the British children...