Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serves a political function. Inclusion in the new NATO will strengthen the values and institutions of democracy in the new member states. The very possibility of membership has already encouraged a number of countries to step up their internal reforms and improve relations with one another. This sort of progress is a potent vaccine against the kind of plague that befell the former Yugoslavia...
...Russia Founding Act. It lays the basis for a solid, growing partnership between the alliance and Russia. Meanwhile, contrary to the predictions of some critics of enlargement, Russia has accelerated its program of reform. President Yeltsin has beefed up his government with innovators committed to economic modernization, made dramatic progress in reconciling differences with Ukraine, participated at the Summit of the Eight in Denver and intensified Russia's effort to enter the World Trade Organization...
Almost obscured by this torpor is the fact that there has been some remarkable progress over the past five years--real changes in the attitude of ordinary people in the Third World toward family size and a dawning realization that environmental degradation and their own well-being are intimately, and inversely, linked. Almost none of this, however, has anything to do with what the bureaucrats accomplished...
...treaty is scheduled to be signed this December in Kyoto, Japan, but governments still cannot agree on limits. Meanwhile, the U.S. produces 7% more CO2 than it did in 1990, and emissions in the developing world have risen even more sharply. No one would confuse the "Rio process" with progress...
...most of the world was poring over the stunning pictures from Mars, the crew of the Mir received some good news of their own as a Progress supply ship stocked with repair equipment finally docked with the crippled space station. Cosmonauts needed the supplies for the repair work they'll do during a spacewalk July 17, when they will reconnect power lines with the station's damaged Spektr module. Also delivered today: the world's worst airline food, some oxygen, fuel and a toothbrush for American astronaut Michael Foale...