And now, 2004, Barack Obama symbolizes the line of progress and growth.
From child labor laws to the Clean Air Act to our most recent strictures against hidden fees and penalties by credit card companies, we have, from time to time, embraced common sense rules of the road that strengthen our country without unduly interfering with the pursuit of progress and the growth of our economy.
Chinese children born today will continue to live in a country on the path of rapid economic progress and growth.
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The second is whether he can restore it to a path of democratic progress and rapid economic growth.
It is not the enlargement of incentives and rewards that generates growth and progress, profits for the entrepreneur and revenues for the government, but the expansion of information and knowledge.
This yin of market growth and economic progress is more than just a contrast with the yang of financial and banking loss.
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It has presided over the consolidation of Chile's democracy, almost two decades of economic growth and stability, and much social progress.
The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
This dramatic period has since been trivialized by the progress that followed and the burgeoning growth of the global economy.
At Los Cabos, the G20 looks forward to hearing more from the European leaders on the progress of their efforts to stabilize their banking system and promote growth, and to hear what their vision is for taking this effort forward toward fiscal and financial union.
And independent economists are out there making clear what the impact on the economy would be on the uncertainty it would create for businesses, and that would obviously be harmful at a time when we are beginning to see some real progress in terms of economic growth, sustained growth, and sustained job creation.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
"The investment grade rating substantiates all the progress Philippines has made in terms of fiscal sustainability, reforms, and improved growth outlook, " said Prakriti Sofat from Barclays Capital in Singapore.
Yes, Japanese society fosters conformity, but it would take only a handful of entrepreneurs given free rein (out of a population of 126 million) to bring about the breakthroughs and growth necessary for progress.
More splits would mean less progress on essential fiscal reforms, delay in the achievement of stable economic growth and perhaps, thereby, more crime.
Most of that is gone, Pierce says, and for all the commitment to "Save the Bay" he is of the view little progress has been made, and that development on the shoreline, population growth in the area and runoff from area farms and lawns have greatly outpaced conservation and restoration efforts.
However, India's economic growth in 2011 slowed because of persistently high inflation and interest rates and little progress on economic reforms.
In a new paper, with the racy title Debt and Deleveraging: uneven progress on the path to growth, McKinsey asserts that the task of reducing the indebtedness of consumer-led economies such as the UK and Spain is barely underway (and see my earlier post, UK's debts biggest in the world, for more on this).
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