Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, some city employees say her resignation signals a broader dissatisfaction with the progress of diversity and tolerance in the city administration...
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts andSciences Christoph J. Wolff also reported to theFaculty, reviewing the progress of graduatefinancial aid reform...
...Sanger's explicitly stated aims for the American Birth Control League (another predecessor of Planned Parenthood) was "racial progress." She used her magazine Birth Control Review to promote White Supremacy and Nazistyle eugenics. She once wrote of her goal of creating a "race of thoroughbreds" by encouraging "more children from the fit, and less from the unfit." In 1932, the magazine outlined Sanger's "Plan for Peace," which called for coerced sterilization, mandatory segregation and rehabilitative concentration camps for all "dysgenic stocks." In 1933, the magazine even published an article by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization...
...palpable distrust between Israeli and Palestinian leaders despite six days of intense talks in a Maryland compound bodes ill for real progress, whatever the spin on the outcome of the talks. Israel wants Arafat to clamp down hard on his Hamas opponents; Arafat is reluctant to take unpopular steps on behalf of an Israeli government he doesn't trust. "Arafat has lost hope that he can make significant progress with Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "He's unlikely to make unpopular decisions for a deal he doesn't believe Netanyahu will keep anyway." Arafat's reported illness...
...House lawyers will meet with committee counterparts to discuss what a Clinton aide called "mechanics." By that he means issues like settling which facts in the Starr report, if any, the White House is willing to stipulate as true in the interest of efficiency. But don't expect much progress. Sniffed a senior adviser to the President: "We're a lot more interested in cross-examination than stipulation...