Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English have made a giant step in combating noise pollution. They sent the Sex Pistols...
Walters said that students coming to UHS are "talking about drugs again--more than the last two or three years," adding that this was a warning of trouble to come, especially if those who sell impure LSD, the most common street drug, step up their dealings...
...proper raising of children. But now, Lasch argues, the advisors seek a new kind of legitimacy. They claim to speak as scientists wielding truth, rather than as moralists, as detached rationalists rather than mothers-in-law. By translating social problems into a "religion of health," the experts step righteously into realms of family affairs once considered private and intimate. The social scientist treats his subjects as a doctor would his patients...
Brodeur says he was fettered and harassed by the military establishment in his research, and he now proclaims that The Zapping of America has ended the microwave cover-up. The next and only step is to arrest the zapping, and Brodeur's concludes that only persistent and widespread public vigilance will stop the evil zappers. Surrounded by the military industrial maze which Brodeur vividly details, it is at least comforting to know that there may still be an escape from the microwave crossfire--thanks to a conscientious muckraker like Brodeur...
...University's action shows a side of academic institutions that is all too rarely seen, namely, a willingness to protect a courageous individual. Harvard should now take the next logical step--to divest its holdings in American companies whose South African investments support the apartheid system...