Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about progress made and urged Clinton directly to reaffirm the goal of integration. On TV it looked as if he were agreeing with me. In the interests of defending affirmative action, however, he has been more concerned with diversity, and the word integration is a code attack on identity politics and separatisms (I intended it as such). So he deftly changed the subject, only to be hit between the eyes by Chao, who was steaming about preferences in California, and by Rodriguez, who said he did not want to be a quota-system beneficiary...
...feminism [SOCIETY, June 29]. You have marginalized those who care about feminist issues, such as pay equity and the glass ceiling, implying they are an "elitist" group with little connection to mainstream women and their aspirations. You missed analyzing one of the most significant developments of our century, the progress of women into nontraditional roles and their emergence as a major economic and political force. Nor did you address the persistent inequities that remain. Perhaps only when women are better represented in the boardrooms and upper management of media conglomerates can we expect to see our agenda and our advocates...
...know we feminists have made progress, because my 12-year-old daughter believes she can do, say and be anything, and go anywhere her male friends can. She not only believes it--she expects it to be that way. That is not the power of a dead movement! TAMMY SCHEUERMANN Ames, Iowa...
...surprised if Jacques Chirac obliges. The French president has already gotten a 15 percent boost in the polls out of France's progress to the final; presenting the trophy to Les Bleus while wrapped self-consciously in a soccer scarf will no doubt bring Chirac even greater political gain. He shouldn't, therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering...
...leader Ian Paisley, the chief opponent of April's peace agreement, upon arriving at the standoff site in Portadown, 30 miles outside of Belfast, to huge applause from the Orange Order crowd. Worried Trimble: "This situation has the capacity to destabilize... it could put at risk all the political progress we have achieved." Trimble has the will to make peace. He may now find out whether, as newly elected first minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, he has the power to preserve...