Word: progressives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What would an older, time-tempered King think if he had lived to see today's world, with its black governors, black CEOs and Barack Obama? "You've made significant progress," King's close associate Andrew Young imagines him saying, "but you've still got a long...
...made tremendous progress, there's no question about it, and people who say it's worse now can say that because they weren't here then. But he would be terribly disappointed with the behavior of the children of the black nation and all this anger that they feel...
...continued to make progress for black people who have a college degree. They have moved comfortably into the political and business life of America. But very few people have been able to deal with the poorest of the poor, which is what Martin was doing at the time of his death...
...least it did, before it was transformed by the march of progress--first into pastures, then into sugarcane and soybean fields. In one field I saw an array of ovens cooking trees into charcoal, spewing Cerrado's carbon into the atmosphere; those ovens used to be ubiquitous, but most of the trees are gone. I had to travel hours through converted Cerrado to see a 96-acre (39 hectare) sliver of intact Cerrado, where a former shopkeeper named Lauro Barbosa had spent his life savings for a nature preserve. "The land prices are going up, up, up," Barbosa told...
...what it is supposed to do, and what each of its members is expected to contribute to its mission. Nearly two decades after the end of the cold war - which NATO decisively won without firing a shot in anger - the business of refocusing the alliance remains a work in progress. NATO forces are involved in peacekeeping in the Balkans, and its political leaders are concerned with extending its membership (in the teeth of Russian opposition) to post-Soviet states such as Georgia and Ukraine. But at a time of increasing Taliban activity in southern Afghan provinces such as Uruzgan...