Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressional victories never seem to come easy for Jimmy Carter -when they come at all. So there was reason for quiet euphoria mixed with continuing wariness at the White House last week when the Administration moved a major step forward in its uphill battle to sell $4.8 billion worth of U.S. jet fighters to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In an 8-to-8 tie vote, following days of intensive and bipartisan lobbying, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declined to reject the three-part arms deal. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared Carter to be "extremely gratified" with...
...military wants billions more. The mayors call a 60 billion program a 'first step,' farmers want to plant all they can and be guaranteed a profit. This insatiability could devour...
...sharp protest, the Chinese accused Moscow of taking "a grave, calculated step" aimed at further worsening relations between the two countries and demanded both a Kremlin apology and punishment of the troops involved. "Otherwise," it added, there would be "consequences." Thereupon Moscow expressed "regrets" and claimed that its border guards "had inadvertently" entered China while "pursuing a dangerous armed criminal...
...first step in this defense is visible, vocal and broad-based support for the new student government. When the assembly speaks, it must speak with the enthusiastic support of students. Also, the assembly must be pushed to demand for itself as large a role as possible within the University, mobilizing students within departments and on committees to defend their local interests. If the students let the assembly become a government majors' debating society, it is both their own fault and loss...
...FIRST STEP was a small one. Over a period of a few weeks, I visited everyone in the dorm and was soon elected "dorm rep" for the Freshperson Entertainment Committee. This proved to be a good launching pad toward a career in organized activity. By sophomore year I was splitting time between the Diet Committee and SO. (Students of Oppression). Politics had never been my beat though, until recently. I was looking up the word 'aperture' in the dictionary to explain a joke I had just told when I came upon the word 'apartheid.' I began thinking...