Word: progressives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Honestly, [the weekend] was pretty disappointing,” freshman starter Brent Suter said. “We should have been more competitive, but we’ll learn from it and move on.”Despite a grim record, the Crimson has made some progress in its first two weeks of play. Many of Harvard’s young arms have seen action on the mound and the team’s bats have shown life throughout the lineup.With another seven contests down south, the Crimson will have ample opportunity to prove itself against quality opponents...
...parlance of the U.S. Army, a hand-grenade explosion is a "significant act." So are small arms fire, improvised explosive device detonation and car bombs. The daily number of "sig acts," as the soldiers call them, is sometimes used as a metric to measure progress or regression in the counter-insurgency effort in Iraq. The definition of a sig act, however, is not fixed. According to some soldiers, some sig acts today (those without fatalities, say) never would have been considered as such a year or two ago. And the value of the metric is a matter of contention, even...
...when the panelists began discussing modern women’s movements, Ginsburg acknowledged that progress now requires more than just legal action...
...these spartan offerings are limited by an obnoxious policy of locking down brain break between midnight and 2 a.m. Not that there'd be any food left by then, but it'd be nice to be able to get a fucking soda after you've actually started to make progress on your pset...
...First, that scandal, which could yet derail his progress. On March 3, Ozawa's chief secretary, Takanori Okubo, was arrested by the Tokyo District Prosecutor's office on charges of taking, and falsely reporting, illegal political donations from dummy corporations linked to the company Nishimatsu Construction. The donations are alleged to have been funneled through Ozawa's political fund. In a March 7 interview with TIME, Ozawa said that he was "very surprised" by the arrest, and that the case involved merely "errors in the statement of political fundraising records" of the sort that in the past required only...