Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before noon, 600 blacks step out from the Springhill Missionary Baptist Church on Green Street and head silently for the courthouse, walking three abreast and carrying signs reading SMASH THE KLAN. A police helicopter whirls overhead. The 65-member Tupelo police force is stationed along the route, looking like a seedy version of a TV SWAT team. Most carry 12-gauge pump guns or rifles (some with bayonets), and several big old boys are bulging out of blue bulletproof vests. They look mad. "I walked point for 31 days in a row in Viet Nam," says a young black...
...food, a means to send America's agricultural resources and technology to the world's hungry peoples in exchange for at least a modest profit. Nobody is bringing together America's farmers, processors, agronomists, international distributors, and producers of fertilizers, pesticides and machinery. The first step, he says, is for these many forces to join "to figure out ways to distribute nourishment in the world. How do you feed 30, 40 or 50 million people hi the Third World so that they can live beyond an average...
...small step toward increasing its imports, Japan has recently lowered tariffs on some 124 items, worth about $2 billion. But about a third of the reduction was on shrimp, which the U.S. does not ship to Japan. Tariff cuts on other items were also slight; the duty on computers was dropped from 13.5% to 10.5%, on color film from 16% to 11% and on tires from...
...long argued, the surest way for Japan to reduce its trade surplus is to step up the expansion of its domestic economy. That would increase demand for imports as well as for domestic goods that might otherwise be exported. To this end, Prime Minister Fukuda has pledged his government to a huge deficit-spending program, which includes $22 billion for improving Japan's long neglected highways, bridges and pollution controls. Another $10.5 billion is being spent for 550,000 sorely needed new housing units. As a consequence, consumer spending is reviving, the once mountainous backlog of inventories is fast...
...poetic on the subject of the entrepreneurial ethos. "The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people," he says. "They were founded by people with extraordinary energy, intelligence, ambition, aggressiveness. All those factors go into the primordial capitalist urge." M.I.T. Professor Louis Banks takes the next step. It is now plain all across the nation, he says, that many of those business folks do a better job of problem solving than the Government...