Word: progressives
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...After months of muddled responses, governments and international agencies are racing to allay the damage. Headway will not come cheap. U.N. officials warn that boosting agricultural production enough to feed the world could cost about $20 billion extra a year. Warning that a decade of progress against poverty could be obliterated in short order, World Bank president Robert Zoellick announced the bank would quickly spend about $1.2 billion to boost crop production in the world's poorest countries. U.S. President George W. Bush has committed about $360 million in U.S. emergency food aid, while the Asian Development Bank has vowed...
...Price of Success The current crisis can be traced to a perception of plenty stemming from the Green Revolution of the 1960s. Dramatically improved crop yields sent world food prices plunging, beginning a 40-year period when billions of people ate relatively cheaply. The illusion that such progress was permanent and irreversible seemed to take root alongside the high-yield hybrids, and the threat of widespread famine was assumed to have passed...
...partly a generational conflict, he represented the younger generation, always a plus. Yet, although he has had a significant fundraising advantage since before the primaries began and was anointed the presumptive nominee as early as February when he won eight primaries in a row, he has made scant progress with Hillary’s half of the electorate. Maybe he’s Saint Francis Assisi, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan rolled into one and won’t need any help with any segment of the population going into the fall. But the available evidence is that...
...aggressive rhetoric epitomized the conflict between undergraduates and the College that characterized so many of the major issues in student life this year.While antagonism may have been an overarching theme of the student-College relationship this year, there were many notable exceptions, as progress generally followed communication and compromise. Significant strides in policy were made when the interaction was conceived of in a mutualistic, rather than confrontational, manner, and each side took the small steps necessary to improve the quality of life for Harvard’s students.The year opened auspiciously, as Harvard’s puritanical social scene managed...
...preconditions." Said McCain: "Americans ought to be concerned about the judgment of a presidential candidate who says he's ready to talk, in person and without conditions, with tyrants from Havana to Pyongyang, but hasn't traveled to Iraq to meet with General Petraeus, and see for himself the progress he threatens to reverse...