Word: progressives
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...China the question is critically important. The country's financial markets are a work in progress. They are more open than they were a decade ago, when the Asian crisis rocked global markets, but they are still nowhere near as sophisticated, nor as liquid, as Chinese policymakers would someday like them to be. The value of China's currency, the renminbi, is still basically controlled by the government. There are strict limits on how much Chinese citizens can legally invest abroad. There are trade barriers on what businesses foreign banks can go into inside China. And there are no derivatives...
...advisor who has been working with CHA said the Alliance would try to maintain its commitment to underprivileged populations by preserving the most utilized programs. Earlier this year, CHA hired Finucane and the firm Ernst and Young to create a strategic plan that would address its financial problems. But progress on that plan was “scrambled” when the state announced the additional cuts, Finucane said. There will be a community meeting on Nov. 6 to allow residents to comment on the strategic plan that CHA is developing. —Staff Writer Sarah J. Howland...
...Harvard’s promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2016. What will truly define the legacy of Sustainability Week will be this body’s actions, and we hope that it will use the goodwill generated by the recent events to catalyze further progress in Harvard’s environmental development...
...revolutions invariably involve some people giving up on what they strongly believe, which usually involves getting badly hurt. The American Revolution hurt loyalists; the Industrial Revolution hurt artisans; the suffrage movement hurt those with a strong attachment to male hegemony. In each case, the social decision selected progress of the whole at the expense of a dislocation of the part. This, after all, is what a claim to progress implies: in some cases, obstacles to change must be steamrolled...
...federal government deal with the immediate but start taking steps to be able to defuse our fiscal time bomb so we can avoid what I refer to as a super subprime crisis associated with the federal government's finances down the road," said Walker. "We need to start making progress on multiple fronts at once." (See pictures of the week here...