Word: stepped
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...Security Council seat held by Nationalist China since 1945. The trouble with a two-China solution is, of course, that both Peking and Taipei bitterly denounce even the slightest suggestion of it. To skirt the problem, James Thomson has evolved a solution that he describes as "a step into ambiguity." If successful, it would temporarily shelve the Taiwan issue in its present form. Thomson advocates a tacit mutual acknowledgment of Peking's residual sovereignty over Taiwan, along with a similar acknowledgment of Taiwan's full autonomy. Such a vague status could be preserved until Chinese on both sides...
Worried about student protest, the University of California at Los Angeles last week took the unusual step of bestowing its honorary degrees (see below) in private, at a dinner guarded by university police. It took lots of pomp out of the circumstance, but such is the climate of academe this troubled spring. Among the men and women who have been honored with doctorates...
...practice of selling the Pentagon on a new weapons system even before the contractor is reasonably certain that it can perform to specifications. Lockheed's Chairman Daniel Haughton protested last week that the Cheyenne's problems were "normal and to be expected in achieving a major technological step forward." He promised to fight in court against both the cancellation and the Army's planned attempts to recover about $54 million that it has given to Lockheed for production progress payments...
...procurement." Under "TPP," contractors must estimate total costs of a complex project years in advance, and they are supposed to keep quite close to that fixed-price target. TPP was designed to end the egregious overruns that had been fairly common under the older system of contracting for each step as it came along. This had encouraged contractors to make unrealistically low bids in the research phase; once entrenched in a project, they could discover "unforeseen" expenses and plead for more money...
...group of about 60 seniors met in Kirkland House Junior Common Room Tuesday evening in the first step toward organizing a demonstration at commencement on June...