Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock is ticking in this part of the world. Without continuous progress, the peace process falls apart. The U.S. is busy trying to nudge Israel and the Palestinians into implementing a long-delayed stage of the Oslo peace pact. Even with a breakthrough "time is really not our friend here," says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. It's taken 18 months so far to negotiate the transfer of 13% of West Bank land. Now there's little hope the two can settle questions of Jerusalem's status and a future Palestinian state by Oslo's May 4 deadline...
...kind of institution best equipped to solve the insoluble problem: a world-class teaching hospital where the same urgency and intellect that is applied to saving lives is assigned nowadays to saving the institution itself. All across the country, teaching hospitals are trying to figure out how to marry progress with profits, how to come up with the money that will let them continue to lead the world in death-defying discoveries, without going bankrupt in the process...
...Medical Center, so for him to be looking in on patients is a bit like Bill Gates debugging code on a Windows program. Still, it's something he does one month every year, usually in June, like most other doctors at Duke. Right now he's checking on the progress of James McAllister, 73, who has a spinal tumor. McAllister is doing well enough to leave a high-cost intensive-care ward soon for rehabilitation. "That's better for him," says Snyderman. "And cheaper...
...emphasizes the difficulty that both Ruby and her husband each have in trying to leave and escape the problems in their lives and their relationship; and the seasonal brush fire that burns near the town for much of the novel, leaving a hillside scorched and bare, parallels the destructive progress of Ruby's emotional journey and her difficult opportunities for renewal...
...traditional box of racialissues. However the interaction with audiencemembers quickly digressed into an actor's personalaccounts of racism and how his mother was affectedby them in her childhood. This works against whatthey are attempting to accomplish and proves asdoes the play that the opposite is true. We havemade progress since 1937, and more than condemningthe residual racism which exists today, theoutrages in this play underscore the achievementsthat the black and white communities have made inbecoming one. Perhaps what it does, despite someperformative weakness, is prove that the paint onthe pillars has not merely "blistered and peeled;"the pillars themselves have...