Word: progressives
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...Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella, for one, cites China's "enlightened" patent laws as the reason the Swiss drugmaker will continue to invest in China vs. India, where a court recently rejected the company's attempt to protect a patent on a leukemia drug. "China has made tremendous progress and taken the steps to show they have the right priorities," he says. Or, rather, it's done just what the doctor ordered...
...proved her mettle nearly 20 years after Delaney-Smith’s departure. The coach led Westwood to a state title, six undefeated regular seasons, and the record for most consecutive wins (96) before taking the head coaching job at Harvard in 1982. Delaney-Smith was an emblem of progress in girls’ athletics at the high school level, demanding changes like better gym times and uniforms for female athletes at Westwood and beyond. “I didn’t know Kathy until she began to recruit me here,” Hallion says...
...Amaker says. “To have that as part of our identity…I think that’s the best way to reposition our program.” For Harris and Housman, it’s just one more way to get better and make progress towards becoming complete basketball players...
...That battle to be the viable alternative for anti-Hillary Democrats is gradually emerging as the key campaign drama in the stretch run to the Iowa caucus. It's true that Obama and Edwards have both shown signs of progress of late, attacking Clinton as a polarizing or corrupt agent of the status quo: some 70% of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers are either undecided or not supporting Clinton. But most observers say there isn't room for three top-tier candidates, which means the two won't be able to play nice with each other for much longer...
...August lull in the fighting allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to claim violence was ending. And Washington, which sent a small number of U.S. Special Operations troops to accompany the invasion, was optimistic that the government the Ethiopians installed - the Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) - would make progress towards national reconciliation. If that could be accomplished, the U.N. and other agencies might feel safe enough to restart the substantive humanitarian assistance Somalia required. International business, led by enterprising Chinese telecom investors, was even probing Somalia's financial prospects. Might Somalia, left to fester in bloody chaos for so long, finally...