Word: progressives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...senate's higher-education committee, has proposed merging historically black public universities with mostly white schools nearby to cut administrative costs. Among other drawbacks, critics say, the move could mean fewer scholarships, larger classes and teacher layoffs. But race is the thorniest issue by far. "We've made tremendous progress in Georgia," says Harp. "I just think it's the right time to get rid of this vestige of legal segregation." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...players and I do not have it as hard as Betty did in an era when women's sports were barely a blip on the radar, we have derived our own mission from the work of Betty and the other incredible first women of golf. Even with all the progress we have made since the LPGA's inception in 1950, there are always more goals, more opportunities and more ways of giving back. Betty never rested or lost sight of her vision. And for that reason, neither should...
...niche concern to something about which every executive must at least pretend to care. Green businesses may not be flourishing, but business is still going greener. Of course, the recession has restrained sustainability practices and as Makower writes in his just released State of Green Business report, whatever progress is currently being made may not be "addressing planetary problems at sufficient scale and speed." Regardless, he says, the green momentum is still growing, not so much because businesses such as solar power or recycling have become financial titans (they haven't), but because green values - efficiency, reducing waste, managing carbon...
Hausammann wrote that the program aims to “both offer generous incentives to qualifying employees who may wish to retire and help the University make progress in reducing overall compensation costs...
Geithner seems to have opted instead to underpromise and - one hopes - overdeliver. "We will make mistakes," he said in his speech Tuesday morning. "We will go through periods in which things get worse and progress is uneven or interrupted." (See the top 10 financial collapses...