Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate at all times: an ongoing surge of light or energy communicated from the Unknowable to the material world via a series of 10 divine emanations, or sephirot. By studying and imitating these, the mystic could progress ever closer to their source. Sixteenth century master Isaac Luria added a gloss on Creation: God, having graciously receded to make room, channeled a ray of light into the resulting void through mystic vessels. Some of them shattered--the world became broken--and fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped...
Both countries have been arguing for a year that because Iraq has made progress toward eliminating its arsenals of missiles and chemical weapons (though not its biological stores), it should receive some kind of carrot--a partial lifting of economic sanctions--to go with all the sticks. (The U.S. considers the "oil-for-food" swap it approved last December to be in this category; the plan allowed Iraq to sell $4 billion worth of oil, using the money for food and medicine.) The motives of the French and the Russians are suspect, however, because both countries stand to reap financial...
...living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...
...Baby Boomers The progress of Bobbi McCaughey's septuplets has gripped the nation. Now comes the difficult part...
...MOINES: The Iowa septuplets look set to make history as the first surviving seven-baby birth ? and heaven forbid one of them should fail. The nation, indeed the world has become so involved in the progress of this plucky litter of prematures since their birth Wednesday that the loss of one of their number would feel like a grief on the scale of Diana. Not to fear, however ? neonatologist Dr. Robert Shaw pronounced Bobbi McCaughey's brood "warm, pink and comfortable...