What is the Progressive opportunity?

The Progressive opportunity was a period of time when the country was ready to make various social and political changes. Around 1900, muckrakers began to write about problems in various areas of our society. People were concerned about some of the issues that existed and were supportive of making reforms.

Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The Jungle. The book described the unhealthy and the unsanitary conditions in the meat industry. This led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act. This law required meat to be inspected by the federal government before it could be sold. The Pure Food and Drug Act also was passed when people realized companies were falsely labeling foods and medicines in order to make more money.

John Spargo’s book called The Bitter Cry of Children led to changes in laws regarding workers. Laws were passed that outlawed child labor in certain industries and required children to attend school. When people realized that kids were being exploited, they were ready to make changes to fix the problem.

Lincoln Steffens wrote in his book called The Shame of the Cities about how money was influencing politics. This led to many political changes. These included the direct election of U.S. Senators, the development of the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, and the granting of the right to vote to women. It also led to new forms of local government such as the development of the commission plan of government.

People were concerned about the actions of big businesses. Many people believed big businesses exploited the common person. Several government agencies were developed to regulate big businesses, and some big businesses were ordered to dissolve. The Northern Securities Company was one example of a big business that was broken up by court action.

The Progressives seized upon the opportunities that presented themselves in the early 1900s. Other groups such as the Populists had previously discussed some of the ideas that the Progressives were now supporting, but these ideas weren’t enacted. The Progressives took advantage of a supportive environment that allowed for many changes to be made to reform our society.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.

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