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Word: progressiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...construction will still be in progress when students return in September, but Randall says the project will be as little nuisance as possible...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Construction Faces Few Setbacks | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...Over the last five years, we have made so much progress," Levin said. "Those on the other side seem to be grabbing for any straw they...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Study Shows Impact of Diversity | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Still, there are signs of progress even here. Felicity's virginity loss last season, though tinged with guilt, was refreshingly free of melodrama. And TV's embrace of bad sex is, at best, a stab at honesty, which isn't always pretty. Carrie wonders, "Have we put such a premium on being open and honest with one another that we've misplaced the boundaries of propriety?" Perhaps, but they often came with fictions and stereotypes. For City's cool superwomen, a little cynicism can be empowering, as on an episode about an acquaintance's whirlwind wedding. A lesser sitcom would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex on TV is... ...Not Sexy! | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...rural South to the streets of bustling Washington. Things are supposed to be better there, more sophisticated, more advanced, but when the river suddenly takes the life of little Clara, the Bynums are forced back on their durable old-country ways. In a city caught between tradition and progress, prejudice and dawning tolerance, the family must double back--the way a river does--to gather composure for its next push onward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deep Waters | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...eagerly watch the overtures to peace progress this summer. Like everyone else here, I excitedly look forward towards a speedy withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, a meeting between Ehud Barak and Syrian President Hafez Assad and the declaration of a Palestinian state. But this excitement is tempered by the reality of the abject living conditions, which will probably prove the biggest obstacle to any real peace, especially in the hearts and minds of the people...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Peace, War and Water in the Middle East | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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