Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official death toll approached 7,000 Tuesday, and with 13,000 people still listed missing, that count is almost certain to rise. And true to Nicaraguan tradition, the natural disaster is impacting on politics. "President Arnoldo Aleman is being criticized for the slow progress in getting aid to stricken villages," says Orlandi. "And the Sandinistas are attacking him for not declaring a national emergency." Aleman may want to pay more attention to history: It was political fallout from the 1972 killer earthquake that helped sweep the Sandinistas to power seven years later...
...outlet mall to buy men's clothes and perfume. The 69-year-old Arafat rode a bicycle--the first time in 50 years, he told aides--around the grounds, his trademark checkered kaffiyeh flapping in the breeze, security agents following on a golf cart. It became obvious that any progress would require Clinton's presence; neither side saw value in giving concessions to anyone of lesser rank...
...have a right to ask me for territory." Clinton got Arafat to accept Netanyahu's five security demands, but that afternoon Bibi put forward a kitchen-sink collection of complaints. Once the core security problems were solved, it was clear to Clinton that two emotional issues were blocking progress. For the Palestinians, it was the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails. For the Israelis, it was revising the P.L.O. charter's call for Israel's destruction. That night by a fireplace, Clinton sat down with Arafat, Netanyahu and aides and told them, "I want to clearly understand where...
...succeed, but there were surprising hints of new life in the peace process. Netanyahu's right-wing coalition partners are outraged at the deal but have nowhere else to go. The Prime Minister seemed to be grasping for a big chunk of the center, whose support depends on continued progress with Arafat. Another factor, the Americans at Wye observed, was how well the next generation of Israeli and Palestinian officials got along. While the leaders sometimes screamed and raged, the younger ones, who know one another from joint service on technical committees, called one another by their first names, joked...
Still, in early Australia as in America, what artists' clients wanted was the imagery of success and progress in claiming and settling the land. Early 19th century Australian painters, like their counterparts in America, thus showed little interest in painting the wild--until it became a tourist sight. They did farms, villages, settled acres--images that would attract new settlement...