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Addams 'notion of lateral progress exemplifies again how she has been misrepresented as an ameliorist.
Jane Addams Hamington, Maurice 2007
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And yet the vast majority of documents studying, chronicling, and counting what's countable about the drug war, even supposedly ameliorist ones that suggest a switch from, say, military means to medical ones in fighting the drug scourge, refuse to question the root of the absurdity.
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 2009
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And yet the vast majority of documents studying, chronicling, and counting what's countable about the drug war, even supposedly ameliorist ones that suggest a switch from, say, military means to medical ones in fighting the drug scourge, refuse to question the root of the absurdity.
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 2009
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And yet the vast majority of documents studying, chronicling, and counting what's countable about the drug war, even supposedly ameliorist ones that suggest a switch from, say, military means to medical ones in fighting the drug scourge, refuse to question the root of the absurdity.
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 2009
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Holmes’s personal views on economics were influenced by Malthusian theories that emphasized struggle for a fixed amount of resources; however, he did not share the young Progressives’ ameliorist views.
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